Mark:15:1-15

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* PROMPTLY at dawn the high priests , after holding a consultation with the elders and the scribes and the whole council , bound Jesus and led him away and delivered him over to Pilate . * Pilate asked him , "Are you the King of the Jews ?" He answered him , * The high priests went on making many charges against him . * Pilate again asked him , "Have you no answer ? See how many charges they are making against you ." * But Jesus no longer answered anything , so that Pilate wondered . * It was customary that at every feast he should release some one prisoner at their request . * There was a man called Barabbas in chains among those insurrectionaries who in the insurrection had committed murder . * The crowd advanced and began asking him to do as he was accustomed to do for them . * Pilate answered them , "Do you want me to release for you the King of the Jews ?" * For he knew that it was on account of envy that the high priests had handed him over . * But the high priests incited the crowd to have him rather set free Barabbas for them . * Pilate again asked , "What , then , shall I do with him whom you call the King of the Jews ?" * They again shouted , "Crucify him !" * But Pilate said to them , "What has he done that was wrong ?" But they shouted violently , "Crucify him !" * Then Pilate , wishing to satisfy the crowd , set free Barabbas for them and after scourging Jesus handed him over to be crucified .

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