Joh 18:39-19:16 | ESV | STEP | But you have a custom that I should release one man for you at the Passover . So do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews ?

John 18:39-40

39 ^aBut you have a custom that I should release one man for you at the Passover. So do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?” 40 They cried out again, ^b“Not this man, but Barabbas!” Now Barabbas was a robber. ^{▼▼Or an insurrectionist}

John 19:1-16

Jesus Delivered to Be Crucified

1 Then Pilate took Jesus and ^dflogged him. 2 ^eAnd the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head and arrayed him in a purple robe. 3 They came up to him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and struck him with their hands. 4 Pilate went out again and said to them, “See, I am bringing him out to you that you may know that ^fI find no guilt in him.” 5 So Jesus came out, wearing ^gthe crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, ^h“Behold the man!” 6 When the chief priests and the officers saw him, they cried out, “Crucify him, crucify him!” Pilate said to them, ⁱ“Take him yourselves and crucify him, for ^jI find no guilt in him.” 7 The Jews ^{▼▼Greek Ioudaioi probably refers here to Jewish religious leaders, and others under their influence, in that time; also verses 12, 14, 31, 38} answered him, “We have a law, and ^laccording to that law he ought to die because ^mhe has made himself the Son of God.” 8 When Pilate heard this statement, ⁿhe was even more afraid. 9 ^oHe entered his headquarters again and said to Jesus, ^p“Where are you from?” But ^qJesus gave him no answer. 10 So Pilate said to him, “You will not speak to me? Do you not know that I have authority to release you and authority to crucify you?” 11 Jesus answered him, ^r“You would have no authority over me at all unless it had been given you from above. Therefore ^she who delivered me over to you ^thas the greater sin.”

12 From then on ^uPilate sought to release him, but the Jews cried out, “If you release this man, you are not Caesar’s friend. ^vEveryone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar.” 13 So when Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus out and sat down on ^wthe judgment seat at a place called The Stone Pavement, and in Aramaic ^{▼▼Or Hebrew; also verses 17, 20} Gabbatha. 14 Now it was ^ythe day of Preparation of the Passover. It was about the sixth hour. ^{▼▼That is, about noon} He said to the Jews, ^aa“Behold your King!” 15 They cried out, ^ab“Away with him, away with him, crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your King?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar.” 16 ^acSo he ^addelivered him over to them to be crucified.

The Crucifixion

So they took Jesus,