7. And the one named Barabbas was imprisoned with the rebels who had committed murder in the rebellion.
8. And the crowd came up and began to ask him to do as he customarily did for them.
9. So Pilate answered them, saying, “Do you want me to release for you the king of the Jews?”
10. (For he realized that the chief priests had handed him over because of envy.)
11. But the chief priests incited the crowd so that he would release for them Barabbas instead.
12. So Pilate answered and said to them again, “Then what do you want me to do with the one whom you call the king of the Jews?”
13. And they shouted again, “Crucify him!”
14. And Pilate said to them, “Why? What evil has he done?” But they shouted even louder, “Crucify him!”
15. So Pilate, because he wanted to satisfy the crowd, released for them Barabbas. And after he had Jesus flogged, he handed him over so that he could be crucified.
16. So the soldiers led him away into the palace (that is, the governor’s residence) and called together the whole cohort.
17. And they put a purple cloak on him, and after weaving a crown of thorns they placed it on him.
18. And they began to greet him, “Hail, king of the Jews!”
19. And they repeatedly struck him on the head with a reed, and were spitting on him, and they knelt down and did obeisance to him.
20. And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the purple cloak and put his own clothes on him, and they led him out so that they could crucify him.
21. And they forced a certain man who was passing by, Simon of Cyrene (the father of Alexander and Rufus), who was coming from the country, to carry his cross.