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Pilate, therefore, went forth unto them, and said, `What accusation do ye bring against this man?'

they answered and said to him, `If he were not an evil doer, we had not delivered him to thee.'

Pilate, therefore, said to them, `Take ye him--ye--and according to your law judge him;' the Jews, therefore, said to him, `It is not lawful to us to put any one to death;'

that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled which he said, signifying by what death he was about to die.

Pilate, therefore, entered into the praetorium again, and called Jesus, and said to him, `Thou art the King of the Jews?'

Jesus answered him, `From thyself dost thou say this? or did others say it to thee about me?'

Pilate answered, `Am I a Jew? thy nation, and the chief priests did deliver thee up to me; what didst thou?'

Jesus answered, `My kingdom is not of this world; if my kingdom were of this world, my officers had struggled that I might not be delivered up to Jews; but now my kingdom is not from hence.'

Pilate, therefore, said to him, `Art thou then a king?' Jesus answered, `Thou dost say it ; because a king I am, I for this have been born, and for this I have come to the world, that I may testify to the truth; every one who is of the truth, doth hear my voice.'

Pilate saith to him, `What is truth?' and this having said, again he went forth unto the Jews, and saith to them, `I do find no fault in him;

therefore they all cried out again, saying, `Not this one--but Barabbas;' and Barabbas was a robber.

Then, therefore, did Pilate take Jesus and scourge him ,

and the soldiers having plaited a crown of thorns, did place it on his head, and a purple garment they put around him,

and said, `Hail! the king of the Jews;' and they were giving him slaps.

Pilate, therefore, again went forth without, and saith to them, `Lo, I do bring him to you without, that ye may know that in him I find no fault;'

Jesus, therefore, came forth without, bearing the thorny crown and the purple garment; and he saith to them, `Lo, the man!'

When, therefore, the chief priests and the officers did see him, they cried out, saying, `Crucify, crucify;' Pilate saith to them, `Take ye him--ye, and crucify; for I find no fault in him;'

the Jews answered him, `We have a law, and according to our law he ought to die, for he made himself Son of God.'

and entered again to the praetorium, and saith to Jesus, `Whence art thou?' and Jesus gave him no answer.

Pilate, therefore, saith to him, `To me dost thou not speak? hast thou not known that I have authority to crucify thee, and I have authority to release thee?'

Jesus answered, `Thou wouldest have no authority against me, if it were not having been given thee from above; because of this, he who is delivering me up to thee hath greater sin.'

From this time was Pilate seeking to release him, and the Jews were crying out, saying, `If this one thou mayest release, thou art not a friend of Caesar; every one making himself a king, doth speak against Caesar.'

Pilate, therefore, having heard this word, brought Jesus without--and he sat down upon the tribunal--to a place called, `Pavement,' and in Hebrew, Gabbatha;

and they cried out, `Take away, take away, crucify him;' Pilate saith to them, `Your king shall I crucify?' the chief priests answered, `We have no king except Caesar.'

Then, therefore, he delivered him up to them, that he may be crucified, and they took Jesus and led him away,