22. A third time he said to them, “Why, what evil has he done? I have found in him no guilt deserving death. I will therefore punish and release him.”
23. But they were urgent, demanding with loud cries that he should be crucified. And their voices prevailed.
24. So Pilate decided that their demand should be granted.
25. He released the man who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder, for whom they asked, but he delivered Jesus over to their will.
26. And as they led him away, they seized one Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, and laid on him the cross, to carry it behind Jesus.
27. And there followed him a great multitude of the people and of women who were mourning and lamenting for him.