John 18:39–19:16

³⁹But you have a custom that I should release one unto you at the Pasch. Will you, therefore, that I release unto you the king of the Jews?

⁴⁰Then cried they all again, saying: Not this man, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a robber.

Chapter 19

Then therefore Pilate took Jesus and scourged him.

²And the soldiers platting a crown of thorns, put it upon his head: and they put on him a purple garment.

³And they came to him and said: Hail, king of the Jews. And they gave him blows.

⁴Pilate therefore went forth again and saith to them: Behold, I bring him forth unto you, that you may know that I find no cause in him.

⁵(Jesus therefore came forth, bearing the crown of thorns and the purple garment.) And he saith to them: Behold the Man.

⁶When the chief priests, therefore, and the servants had seen him, they cried out, saying: Crucify him, Crucify him. Pilate saith to them: Take him you, and crucify him: for I find no cause in him.

⁷The Jews answered him: We have a law; and according to the law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.

⁸When Pilate therefore had heard this saying, he feared the more.

⁹And he entered into the hall again; and he said to Jesus: Whence art thou? But Jesus gave him no answer.

¹⁰Pilate therefore saith to him: Speakest thou not to me? Knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee, and I have power to release thee?

¹¹Jesus answered: Thou shouldst not have any power against me, unless it were given thee from above. Therefore, he that hath delivered me to thee hath the greater sin.

¹²And from henceforth Pilate sought to release him. But the Jews cried out, saying: If thou release this man, thou art not Caesar’s friend. For whosoever maketh himself a king speaketh against Caesar.

¹³Now when Pilate had heard these words, he brought Jesus forth and sat down in the judgment seat, in the place that is called Lithostrotos, and in Hebrew Gabbatha.

¹⁴And it was the parasceve of the pasch, about the sixth hour: and he saith to the Jews: Behold your king.

¹⁵But they cried out: Away with him: Away with him: Crucify him. Pilate saith to them: shall I crucify your king? The chief priests answered: We have no king but Caesar.

¹⁶Then therefore he delivered him to them to be crucified. And they took Jesus and led him forth.