Moffatt(i)
12 But while he was being accused by the high priests and elders, he made no reply.
13 Then Pilate said to him, "Do you not hear all their evidence against you?"
14 But, to Pilate's great astonishment, he would not answer him a single word.
15 At festival time the governor was in the habit of releasing any one prisoner whom the crowd chose.
16 At that time they had a notorious prisoner called Jesus Bar-Abbas;
17 so, when they had gathered, Pilate said to them, "Who do you want released? Jesus Bar-Abbas or Jesus the so-called 'Christ'?"
18 (He knew quite well that Jesus had been delivered up out of envy.
19 Besides, when he was seated on the tribunal, his wife had sent to tell him, "Do nothing with that innocent man, for I have suffered greatly to-day in a dream about him.")
20 But the high priests and elders persuaded the crowds to ask Bar-Abbas and to have Jesus killed.
21 The governor said to them, "Which of the two do you want me to release for you?" "Bar-Abbas," they said.
22 Pilate said, "Then what am I to do with Jesus the so-called 'Christ'?" They all said, "Have him crucified!"
23 "Why," said the governor, "what has he done wrong?" But they shouted on more fiercely than ever, "Have him crucified!"
24 Now when Pilate saw that instead of him doing any good a riot was rising, he took some water and washed his hands in presence of the crowd, saying, "I am innocent of this good man's blood. It is your affair!"
25 To this all the people replied, "His blood be on us and on our children!"
26 Then he released Bar-Abbas for them; Jesus he scourged and handed over to be crucified.