John 18:39–19:6

³⁹You^s have a custom that I release one prisoner to you at the Passover. So, do you want me to release to you the king of the Jews?”

⁴⁰They shouted back, “Not this man, but Barabbas!”^t Now Barabbas was a revolutionary.^u

JESUS FLOGGED AND MOCKED

19Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged. ²The soldiers also twisted together a crown^v of thorns, put it on his head, and clothed him in a purple robe. ³And they kept coming up to him^w and saying, “Hail, king of the Jews!” and were slapping his face.

⁴Pilate went outside again and said to them, “Look, I’m bringing him out to you to let you know I find no grounds^x for charging him.” ⁵Then Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe.^y Pilate said to them, “Here is the man!”^z

PILATE SENTENCES JESUS TO DEATH

⁶When the chief priests and the temple servants^D saw him, they shouted, “Crucify! Crucify!”

Pilate responded, “Take him and crucify him yourselves, since I find no grounds for charging him.”