But the governor answered them, “Which of the two do you want me to release to you?” They said, “Barabbas!”
You have taken my friends from me. You have made me an abomination to them. I am confined, and I can’t escape.
When therefore they were gathered together, Pilate said to them, “Whom do you want me to release to you? Barabbas, or Yeshua who is called Messiah?”
Now the chief priests and the elders persuaded the multitudes to ask for Barabbas and destroy Yeshua.
Pilate said to them, “What then shall I do to Yeshua who is called Messiah?” They all said to him, “Let him be crucified!”
“But when the farmers saw him, they reasoned amongst themselves, saying, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.’
Pilate called together the chief priests, the rulers, and the people,