Luke 23:16-23

Twentieth_Century(i) 16 So I shall have him scourged, and then release him." 17 OMITTED TEXT 18 But they began to shout as one man: "Kill this fellow, but release Barabbas for us." 19 (Barabbas was a man who had been put in prison for a riot that had broken out in the city and for murder.) 20 Pilate, however, wanting to release Jesus, called to them again; 21 But they kept calling out: "Crucify, crucify him!" 22 "Why, what harm has this man done?" Pilate said to them for the third time. "I have found nothing in him for which he could be condemned to death. So I will have him scourged, and then release him." 23 But they persisted in loudly demanding his crucifixion; and their clamor gained the day.