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Luke 23:24

American King James Version (1999)

And Pilate gave sentence that it should be as they required.

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You shall not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shall you speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:

He that justifies the wicked, and he that comdemns the just, even they both are abomination to the LORD.

Then released he Barabbas to them: and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.

And so Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas to them, and delivered Jesus, when he had scourged him, to be crucified.

And they were instant with loud voices, requiring that he might be crucified. And the voices of them and of the chief priests prevailed.

And he released to them him that for sedition and murder was cast into prison, whom they had desired; but he delivered Jesus to their will.

Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him.