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13 Pilate summoned the high priests and the leading members of the council and the people,
14 and said to them, "You brought this man before me charged with misleading the people, and here I have examined him before you and not found him guilty of any of the things that you accuse him of.
15 Neither has Herod, for he has sent him back to us. You see he has done nothing to call for his death.
16 So I will teach him a lesson and let him go."
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18 But they all shouted out, "Kill him, and release Barabbas for us!"
19 (He was a man who had been put in prison for a riot that had taken place in the city and for murder.)
20 But Pilate wanted to let Jesus go, and he called out to them again.
21 But they kept on shouting, "Crucify him! Crucify him!"
22 And he said to them a third time, "Why, what has he done that is wrong? For I have found nothing about him to call for his death. So I will teach him a lesson and let him go."
23 But they persisted with loud outcries in demanding that he be crucified, and their shouting won.
24 And Pilate pronounced sentence that what they asked for should be done.
25 He released the man they asked for, who had been put in prison for riot and murder, and handed Jesus over to their will.
26 As they led Jesus away, they seized a man named Simon, from Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, and put the cross on his back, for him to carry behind Jesus.
27 He was followed by a great crowd of people and of women who were beating their breasts and lamenting him.
28 But Jesus turned to them and said, "Women of Jerusalem, do not weep for me but weep for yourselves and for your children,
29 for a time is coming when they will say, 'Happy are the childless women, and those who have never borne or nursed children!'
30 Then people will begin to say to the mountains, 'Fall on us!' and to the hills, 'Cover us up!'
31 For if this is what they do when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?"
32 Two criminals were also led out to execution with him.
33 When they reached the place called the Skull, they crucified him there, with the criminals one at his right and one at his left.
34 And they divided up his clothes among them by drawing lots for them,
35 while the people stood looking on. Even the leading councilors jeered at him, and said, "He has saved others, let him save himself, if he is really God's Christ, his Chosen One!"
36 The soldiers also made sport of him, coming up and offering him sour wine,
37 saying, "If you are the king of the Jews, save yourself!"
38 For there was a notice above his head, "This is the king of the Jews!"