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18 all the people cry'd out, let this man die, and release to us Barabbas. 19 Barabbas had been imprison'd for murder in a riot he had rais'd in the city. 20 Pilate therefore, desirous to release Jesus, expostulated with them again. 21 but they cry'd out, crucify him, crucify him. 22 however he urg'd it a third time, why, what crime has he done? I don't find he has done any thing that deserves death: I will therefore order him to be whipp'd, and so dismiss him. 23 but they persisted with great clamour in their demands, to have him crucified: and as the people and chief priests redoubled their clamours, Luke 23:18-23, Mace New Testament. Public domain.
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