And Pilate gave sentence that it should be as they required.
Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:
He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the LORD.
Then he released Barabbas to them: and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.
And so Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas to them, and having scourged Jesus, delivered him to be crucified.
And they were urgent with loud voices, requiring that he might be crucified: and the voices of them, and of the chief priests prevailed.
And he released to them him that for sedition and murder had been cast into prison, whom they had desired; but he delivered Jesus to their will.
Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him.