³⁹But you have a custom that I release someone for you at the Passover. Do you want me to release for you the King of the Jews?”^* ⁴⁰They shouted in reply, “Not this man but Barabbas!” Now Barabbas was a rebel.^*

¹⁹Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged.^* ²And the soldiers wove a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and they dressed him in a purple robe.^* ³They kept coming up to him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and striking him on the face.^* ⁴Pilate went out again and said to them, “Look, I am bringing him out to you to let you know that I find no case against him.”^* ⁵So Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate^e said to them, “Behold the man!”^* ⁶When the chief priests and the police saw him, they shouted, “Crucify him! Crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves and crucify him; I find no case against him.”^* ⁷The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and according to that law he ought to die because he has claimed to be the Son of God.”^*

⁸Now when Pilate heard this, he was more afraid than ever. ⁹He entered his headquarters again and asked Jesus, “Where are you from?” But Jesus gave him no answer.^* ¹⁰Pilate therefore said to him, “Do you refuse to speak to me? Do you not know that I have power to release you and power to crucify you?” ¹¹Jesus answered him, “You would have no power over me unless it had been given you from above; therefore the one who handed me over to you is guilty of a greater sin.”^* ¹²From then on Pilate tried to release him, but the Jews cried out, “If you release this man, you are no friend of Caesar. Everyone who claims to be a king sets himself against Caesar.”^*

¹³When Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus outside and sat^f on the judge’s bench at a place called The Stone Pavement, or in Hebrew^g Gabbatha.^* ¹⁴Now it was the day of Preparation for the Passover, and it was about noon. He said to the Jews, “Here is your King!”^* ¹⁵They cried out, “Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!” Pilate asked them, “Shall I crucify your King?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar.” ¹⁶Then he handed him over to them to be crucified.

The Crucifixion of Jesus

So they took Jesus,^*

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John 19:5: So Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, “Behold the man!”

Footnotes

eGk He
fOr seated him
gThat is, Aramaic

Cross references

*Mt 27:15–18, 20–23; Mk 15:6–15; Lk 23:18–25
*Acts 3:14
*Mt 27:26
*Mt 27:27–30; Mk 15:16–19
*Jn 18:22
*v 6; Jn 18:38
*v 2
*Acts 3:13
*Lev 24:16; Mt 26:63–66; Jn 5:18; 10:33
*Isa 53:7; Mt 27:12, 14
*Jn 18.28ff; Rom 13:1
*Lk 23:2
*Mt 27:19
*vv 19, 21; Mt 27:62; Mk 15:25
*Mt 27:26; Mk 15:15; Lk 23:25