for the mob of the people followed, crying, “Away with him!”
They cried out, “Away with him, away with him, crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your King?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar.”
Up to this word they listened to him; then they lifted up their voices and said, “Away with such a fellow from the earth! For he ought not to live.”
But they all cried out together, “Away with this man, and release to us Barabbas” —
when slandered, we try to conciliate; we have become, and are now, as the refuse of the world, the offscouring of all things.
Now when they heard these things they were enraged, and they ground their teeth against him.