24. When Pilate saw that he could not prevail at all, but rather that a tumult was rising, he took water and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, “I am innocent of the blood of this just Person. 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 to them; and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered Him to be crucified.
27. Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole garrison around Him.
28. And they stripped Him and put a scarlet robe on Him.