But with loud voices they insisted, asking for Him to be impaled. And the voices of these men and of the chief priests were prevailing.
My being is in the midst of lions; I lie among those who breathe fire, Whose teeth are spears and arrows, And their tongue is a sharp sword.
Then I sent off the three shepherds in one month, for my being despised them, and their being also loathed me.
But he spoke more strongly, “If I have to die with You, I shall not deny You!” And they all said the same.
And he said to them the third time, “Why, what evil has He done? I have found no reason for death in Him. Having disciplined Him then, I shall release Him.”
And Pilate pronounced sentence that what they asked should be done.
But they were insisting, saying, “He stirs up the people, teaching through all Yehuḏ