For the multitude of people that followed kept shouting, “Away with him!”
They shouted back, “Take Him away! Take Him away! Execute Him!” Pilate said to them, “Should I execute your king?” The ruling kohanim answered, “We have no king but Caesar!”
Up to this statement they listened to him. Then they raised their voices, saying, “Away from the earth with this fellow! For he’s not fit to live!”
But they shouted out all together, saying, “Take this fellow away! Release to us Bar-Abba!”
When we are slandered, we speak kindly. We have become the scum of the earth, the dregs of all things—even to this moment.
When they heard these things, they became enraged and began gnashing their teeth at him.