21. So the governor answered and said to them, “Which of the two do you want me to release for you?” And they said, “Barabbas!”
22. Pilate said to them, “What then should I do with Jesus, the one who is called Christ?” They all said, “Let him be crucified!”
23. And he said, “Why? What wrong has he done?” But they began to shout even louder, saying, “Let him be crucified!”
24. So Pilate, when he saw that he was accomplishing nothing, but instead an uproar was developing, took water and washed his hands before the crowd, saying, “I am innocent of the blood of this man. 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 for them, but after he had Jesus flogged, he handed him over so that he could be crucified.
27. Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the governor’s residence and gathered the whole cohort to him.
28. And they stripped him and put a scarlet military cloak around him,
29. and weaving a crown of thorns, they put it on his head, and put a reed in his right hand. And kneeling down before him, they mocked him, saying, “Hail, king of the Jews!”