Matthew 27:11–34
11 So Jesus stood before the governor, and the governor asked him, saying, “Are you the king of the Jews?” And Jesus said, “You say so.” 12 And ⌊when he was being accused⌋d by the chief priests and elders he answered nothing. 13 Then Pilate said to him, “Do you not hear how many things they are testifying against you?” 14 And he did not reply to him, not even with reference to one statement, so that the governor was very astonished.
15 Now at each feast, the governor was accustomed to release one prisoner to the crowd—the one whom they wanted. 16 And at that time they had a notorious prisoner named Jesuse Barabbas.f 17 So after* they had assembled, Pilate said to them, “Whom do you want me to release for you—Jesusg Barabbas or Jesus who is called Christ?” 18 (For he knew that they had handed him over because of envy. 19 And while* he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent a message* to him, saying, “⌊Have nothing to do with that righteous man⌋,h for I have suffered much as a result of a dream today because of him.”) 20 But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowds that they should ask for Barabbas and put Jesus to death. 21 So the governor answered and* said to them, “Which of the two do you want me to release for you?” And they said, “Barabbas!” 22 Pilate said to them, “What then should I do with Jesus, the one who is called Christ?” They all said, “Let him be crucified!” 23 And he said, “Why? What wrong has he done?” But they began to shout* even louder, saying, “Let him be crucified!”
24 So Pilate, when he* saw that he was accomplishing nothing, but instead an uproar was developing, took water and* washed hisi hands before the crowd, saying, “I am innocent of the blood of this man. You see to it!”* 25 And all the people answered and* said, “His blood be on us and on our children!” 26 Then he released Barabbas for them, but after* he had Jesus flogged, he handed him* over so that he could be crucified.
27 Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the governor’s residence and* gathered the whole cohort to him. 28 And they stripped him and* put a scarlet military cloak around him, 29 and weaving a crown of thorns, they put it* on his head, and putj a reed in his right hand. And kneeling down before him, they mocked him, saying, “Hail, king of the Jews!” 30 And they spat on him and* took the reed and repeatedly struckk him* on his head. 31 And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the military cloak and put his own clothes on him, and led him away in order to crucify him.*
32 And as they* were going out, they found a man of Cyrene ⌊named⌋l Simon. They forced this man to carry his cross. 33 And when they* came to a place called Golgotha (which ⌊means Place of a Skull⌋),m 34 they gave him wine mixed with gall to drink, and when he* tasted it* he did not want to drink it.*