Luke 23:16-23

Living_Oracles(i) 16 I will therefore chastise him, and release him. 17 For it was necessary that he should release one to them at the festival. 18 Then all cried out together, Away with this man, and release to us Barabbas. 19 Now Barabbas had been imprisoned for raising sedition in the city, and for murder. 20 Pilate, willing to release Jesus, again, expostulated. 21 But they cried, saying, Crucify! crucify him! 22 A third time he repeated, Why? What evil has this man done? I do not find him guilty of any capital crime; I will therefore chastise him, and release him. 23 But they persisted, demanding, with much clamor, that he might be crucified. At last, their clamors, and those of the chief priests, prevailed: