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Matthew 27:21

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“Which of the two do you want me to release to you?” asked the governor. “Barabbas,” they answered.

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You have taken from me my closest friends and have made me repulsive to them. I am confined and cannot escape;

So when the crowd had gathered, Pilate asked them, “Which one do you want me to release to you: Jesus Barabbas, or Jesus who is called the Messiah?”

But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowd to ask for Barabbas and to have Jesus executed.

“What shall I do, then, with Jesus who is called the Messiah?” Pilate asked. They all answered, “Crucify him!”

“But when the tenants saw him, they talked the matter over. ‘This is the heir,’ they said. ‘Let’s kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’

Pilate called together the chief priests, the rulers and the people,