But Pilate asked the crowd, “Which one of these two do you want me to set free for you?” “Barabbas!” they answered.
You have caused my friends to abandon me; you have made me repulsive to them. I am closed in and cannot escape;
So when the crowd gathered, Pilate asked them, “Which one do you want me to set free for you? Jesus Barabbas or Jesus called the Messiah?”
The chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowd to ask Pilate to set Barabbas free and have Jesus put to death.
“What, then, shall I do with Jesus called the Messiah?” Pilate asked them. “Crucify him!” they all answered.
But when the tenants saw him, they said to one another, ‘This is the owner's son. Let's kill him, and his property will be ours!’
Pilate called together the chief priests, the leaders, and the people,