23. He asked, “Why? What wrong has he done?” But they shouted more insistently, “Crucify him!”
24. When Pilate saw that he could do nothing, but that instead a riot was starting, he took some water, washed his hands before the crowd and said, “I am innocent of this man’s blood. You take care of it yourselves!”
25. In reply all the people said, “Let 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 to be crucified.
27. Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the governor’s residence and gathered the whole cohort around him.
28. They stripped him and put a scarlet robe around him,
29. and after braiding a crown of thorns, they put it on his head. They put a staff in his right hand, and kneeling down before him, they mocked him: “Hail, king of the Jews!”