And the governor answering, said to them, “Which of the two do you wish I release to you?” They said, “Barabba!”
You have put away my friends far from me; You have made me an abomination to them; I am shut in and do not go out;
So when they were assembled, Pilate said to them, “Whom do you wish I release to you? Barabba, or יהושע who is called Messiah?”
But the chief priests and elders persuaded the crowds that they should ask for Barabba and to destroy יהושע.
Pilate said to them, “What then shall I do with יהושע who is called Messiah?” They all said to him, “Let Him be impaled!”
“But when the farmers saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, so that the inheritance becomes ours.’
And Pilate, having called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people,