And the chief priests moved the crowd, that he would rather loose Barabbas to them.
And ye denied the Holy and Just, and demanded a man, a murderer, to be yielded to you.
Then cried they all again, saying, Not this, but Barabbas: and Barabbas was a robber.
And the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowds that they should ask Barabbas, and destroy Jesus.
Hear this ye priests, and attend, ye house of Israel, and give ear, ye house of the king; for the judgment is to you, because ye were a snare to the watch tower and a net stretched out upon Tabor.
For he knew that through envy the chief priests had delivered him up:
And Pilate having answered, again said to them, What then will ye I should do to him whom ye call King of the Jews?