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Jesus Before
Pilate
Now
Jesus stood before the governor: and the
governor asked him, saying, "Are you the King of
the Jews?"
Jesus said to him, "So you say."
When he was
accused by the chief priests and elders, he
answered nothing. Then Pilate said to him,
"Don't you hear how many things they testify
against you?"
He gave him no answer, not
even one word, so that the governor marveled
greatly. Now at the feast the governor was
accustomed to release to the multitude one
prisoner, whom they desired. They had then a
notable prisoner, called Barabbas. When
therefore they were gathered together, Pilate
said to them, "Whom do you want me to release to
you? Barabbas, or Jesus, who is called Christ?"
For he knew that because of envy they had
delivered him up.
While he was sitting on
the judgment seat, his wife sent to him, saying,
"Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for
I have suffered many things this day in a dream
because of him." Now the chief priests and the
elders persuaded the multitudes to ask for
Barabbas, and destroy Jesus. But the governor
answered them, "Which of the two do you want me
to release to you?"
They said, "Barabbas!"
Pilate said to them, "What then shall I do
to Jesus, who is called Christ?"
They all
said to him, "Let him be crucified!"
But the
governor said, "Why? What evil has he done?"
But they cried out exceedingly, saying, "Let
him be crucified!"
So when Pilate saw that
nothing was being gained, but rather that a
disturbance was starting, he took water, and
washed his hands before the multitude, saying,
"I am innocent of the blood of this righteous
person. You see to it."
All the people
answered, "May his blood be on us, and on our
children!"
Then he released to them
Barabbas, but Jesus he flogged and delivered to
be crucified.
Matthew
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