“Crucify him!” they shouted.
“What shall I do, then, with the one you call the king of the Jews?” Pilate asked them.
“Why? What crime has he committed?” asked Pilate. But they shouted all the louder, “Crucify him!”
But they kept shouting, “Crucify him! Crucify him!”
Though they found no proper ground for a death sentence, they asked Pilate to have him executed.