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12 And while the high priests and elders were making their charges against him, he made no answer.
13 Then Pilate said to him, "Do you not hear what evidence they are bringing against you?"
14 And he made him no reply to even a single accusation, so that the governor was greatly surprised.
15 Now at festival time the governor was accustomed to release for the people any prisoner whom they chose,
16 and at this time there was a notorious prisoner named Barabbas.
17 So when they gathered to ask this, Pilate said to them, "Which one do you want me to release for you, Barabbas, or Jesus, the so-called Christ?"
18 For he knew that they had handed him over to him out of envy.
19 Now while he was on the bench his wife sent to him to say, "Do not have anything to do with that upright man, for I have just had a painful experience in a dream about him."
20 But the high priests and the elders prevailed on the crowd to ask for Barabbas, and to have Jesus put to death.
21 And the governor answered, "Which of the two do you want me to release for you?" They said, "Barabbas!"
22 Pilate said to them, "Then what am I to do with Jesus, the so-called Christ?" They all said, "Have him crucified!"
23 He said, "Why, what has he done that is wrong?" But they shouted all the louder, "Have him crucified!"
24 When Pilate saw that he was gaining nothing but that a riot was beginning instead, he took some water and washed his hands in the presence of the crowd, saying, "I am not responsible for this man's death; you must see to it yourselves."
25 And all the people answered, "His blood be on us and on our children!"
26 Then he released Barabbas for them, and he had Jesus flogged and handed him over to be crucified.