1 Pilate then took Jesus and scourged Him.
2 And the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on His head, and put a purple robe on Him;
3 and they [began] to come up to Him and say, |Hail, King of the Jews!| and to give Him slaps [in the face].
4 Pilate came out again and said to them, |Behold, I am bringing Him out to you so that you may know that I find no guilt in Him.|
5 Jesus then came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. [Pilate] said to them, |Behold, the Man!|
6 So when the chief priests and the officers saw Him, they cried out saying, |Crucify, crucify!| Pilate said to them, |Take Him yourselves and crucify Him, for I find no guilt in Him.|
7 The Jews answered him, |We have a law, and by that law He ought to die because He made Himself out [to] [be] the Son of God.|
8 Therefore when Pilate heard this statement, he was [even] more afraid;
9 and he entered into the Praetorium again and said to Jesus, |Where are You from?| But Jesus gave him no answer.
10 So Pilate said to Him, |You do not speak to me? Do You not know that I have authority to release You, and I have authority to crucify You?|
11 Jesus answered, |You would have no authority over Me, unless it had been given you from above; for this reason he who delivered Me to you has [the] greater sin.|
12 As a result of this Pilate made efforts to release Him, but the Jews cried out saying, |If you release this Man, you are no friend of Caesar; everyone who makes himself out [to be] a king opposes Caesar.|
13 Therefore when Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus out, and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called The Pavement, but in Hebrew, Gabbatha.
14 Now it was the day of preparation for the Passover; it was about the sixth hour. And he said to the Jews, |Behold, your King!|
15 So they cried out, |Away with [Him], away with [Him], crucify Him!| Pilate said to them, |Shall I crucify your King?| The chief priests answered, |We have no king but Caesar.|
16 So he then handed Him over to them to be crucified.
17 They took Jesus, therefore, and He went out, bearing His own cross, to the place called the Place of a Skull, which is called in Hebrew, Golgotha.
18 There they crucified Him, and with Him two other men, one on either side, and Jesus in between.
