Matthew 27:15–31

¹⁵Now at the feast the governor was accustomed to release one prisoner to the crowd, whom they would. ¹⁶And they had then a notable prisoner, named Barabbas. ¹⁷They therefore being gathered together, Pilate said to them, Whom will ye that I release to you, Barabbas, or Jesus who is called Christ? ¹⁸For he knew that they had delivered him up through envy. ¹⁹But, as he was sitting on the judgment-seat, his wife sent to him, saying, Have thou nothing to do with that righteous man; for I have suffered to-day many things in a dream because of him. ²⁰But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowds that they should beg for Barabbas, and destroy Jesus. ²¹And the governor answering said to them, Which of the two will ye that I release unto you? And they said, Barabbas. ²²Pilate says to them, What then shall I do with Jesus, who is called Christ? They all say, Let him be crucified. ²³And the governor said, What evil then has he done? But they cried more than ever, saying, Let him be crucified. ²⁴And Pilate, seeing that it availed nothing, but that rather a tumult was arising, having taken water, washed his hands before the crowd, saying, I am guiltless of the blood of this righteous one: see ye to it. ²⁵And all the people answering said, His blood be on us and on our children.

²⁶Then he released to them Barabbas; but Jesus, having scourged him, he delivered up that he might be crucified. ²⁷Then the soldiers of the governor, having taken Jesus with them to the praetorium, gathered against him the whole band, ²⁸and having taken off his garment, put on him a scarlet cloak; ²⁹and having woven a crown out of thorns, they put it on his head, and a reed in his right hand; and, bowing the knee before him, they mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews! ³⁰And having spit upon him, they took the reed and beat him on his head. ³¹And when they had mocked him, they took the cloak off him, and put his own clothes on him, and led him away to crucify.