13AndPilate, when he had called together the chief priestsand the rulersand the people,14Saiduntothem, Ye have broughtthisman unto me,as one that perverteth the people:and,behold , I, having examined him beforeyou, have foundnofaultinthisman touching those thingswhereof ye accusehim:15No, nor yetHerod:for I sentyoutohim;and,lo , nothingworthy of deathisdone unto him.16
I willthereforechastisehim, and release him.
(For of necessity he mustreleaseone unto themat the feast.)
18And they cried out all at once,saying , Away withthis man, andrelease unto usBarabbas:19
(Who for a certainseditionmadein the city,and for murder, was castinto prison.)
20Pilatetherefore,willing to releaseJesus,spakeagain to them .
21But they cried , saying , Crucify him, crucifyhim.22And he saiduntothem the third time,Why,whatevilhathhedone ? I have foundnocause of deathinhim: I willthereforechastisehim, and let him go .
23And they were instant with loudvoices,requiring that he might be crucified . And the voices of themand of the chief priestsprevailed .
24AndPilate gave sentence that it should be astheyrequired.25And he released unto them him that forseditionandmurder was castintoprison,whom they had desired ; but he deliveredJesus to theirwill.26Andas they ledhimaway , they laid hold upononeSimon, a Cyrenian,coming out of the country, and onhim they laid the cross, that he might bear it afterJesus.27And there followedhim a greatcompany of people,and of women,whichalsobewailedandlamentedhim.28ButJesusturninguntothemsaid , Daughters of Jerusalem,weepnotforme,butweepforyourselves,andforyourchildren.29For,behold , the days are coming , in the which they shall say , Blessed are the barren,and the wombsthatneverbare , and the papswhichnever gave suck .30Then shall they begin to say to the mountains,Fallonus;and to the hills,Coverus.31Forif they do these thingsin a greentree,what shall be donein the dry?32And there were alsotwoother,malefactors,ledwithhim to be put to death .
33Andwhen they were cometo the place,which is calledCalvary,athere they crucifiedhim,and the malefactors,oneon the right hand,and the otheron the left.34ThensaidJesus,Father,forgivethem;for they knownotwhat they do .And they partedhisraiment, and castlots.35And the peoplestoodbeholding . And the rulersalsowiththemderided him, saying , He savedothers; let him savehimself,ifhebeChrist, the chosen of God.36And the soldiersalsomockedhim,coming to him, andofferinghimvinegar,37Andsaying , Ifthoube the king of the Jews,savethyself.38And a superscriptionalsowaswrittenoverhim in letters of Greek,andLatin,andHebrew,THISIS THE KING OF THE JEWS.