Mark 15:6–20

⁶Now on the festival day he was wont to release unto them one of the prisoners, whomsoever they demanded.

⁷And there was one called Barabbas, who was put in prison with some seditious men, who in the sedition had committed murder.

⁸And when the multitude was come up, they began to desire that he would do as he had ever done unto them.

⁹And Pilate answered them and said: Will you that I release to you the king of the Jews?

¹⁰For he knew that the chief priests had delivered him up out of envy.

¹¹But the chief priests moved the people, that he should rather release Barabbas to them.

¹²And Pilate again answering, saith to them: What will you then that I do to the king of the Jews?

¹³But they again cried out: Crucify him.

¹⁴And Pilate saith to them: Why, what evil hath he done? But they cried out the more: Crucify him.

¹⁵And so Pilate being willing to satisfy the people, released to them Barabbas: and delivered up Jesus, when he had scourged him, to be crucified.

¹⁶And the soldiers led him away into the court of the palace: and they called together the whole band.

¹⁷And they clothed him with purple: and, platting a crown of thorns, they put it upon him.

¹⁸And they began to salute him: Hail, king of the Jews.

¹⁹And they struck his head with a reed: and they did spit on him. And bowing their knees, they adored him.

²⁰And after they had mocked him, they took off the purple from him and put his own garments on him: and they led him out to crucify him.