Moffatt(i)
1 Immediately morning came, the high priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and all the Sanhedrin, and after binding Jesus they led him off and handed him over to Pilate.
2 Pilate asked him, "Are you the king of the Jews?" He replied, "Certainly."
3 Then the high priest brought many accusations against him,
4 and once more Pilate asked him, "Have you no reply to make? Look at all their charges against you."
5 But, to the astonishment of Pilate, Jesus answered no more.
6 Now at festival time he used to release for them some prisoner whom they begged from him.
7 (There was a man called Bar-Abbas in prison, among the rioters who had committed murder during the insurrection.)
8 So the crowd pressed up and started to ask him for his usual boon.
9 Pilate replied, "Would you like me to release the king of the Jews for you?"
10 (For he knew the high priests had handed him over out of envy.)
11 But the high priests stirred up the crowd to get him to release Bar-Abbas for them instead.
12 Pilate asked them again, "And what am I to do with your so-called king of the Jews?"
13 Whereupon they shouted again, "Crucify him."
14 "Why," said Pilate, "what has he done wrong?" But they shouted more fiercely than ever, "Crucify him!"
15 So, as Pilate wanted to satisfy the crowd, he released Bar-Abbas for them; Jesus he handed over to be crucified, after he had scourged him.
16 The soldiers took him inside the courtyard (that is, the praetorium) and got all the regiment together;
17 then they dressed him in purple, put on his head a crown of thorns which they had plaited,
18 and began to salute him with, "Hail, O king of the Jews!"
19 They struck him on the head with a stick and spat upon him and bent their knees to him in homage.
20 Then, after making fun of him, they stripped off the purple, put on his own clothes, and took him away to crucify him.
21 They forced Simon a Cyrenian who was passing on his way from the country (the father of Alexander and Rufus) to carry his cross,
22 and they led him to the place called Golgotha (which means the place of a skull).
23 They offered him wine flavoured with myrrh, but he would not take it.
24 Then they crucified him and distributed his clothes among themselves, drawing lots for them to decide each man's share.
25 It was nine in the morning when they crucified him.
26 The inscription bearing his charge was: THE KING OF THE JEWS.
27 They also crucified two robbers along with him, one at his right and one at his left.