15. They shouted, “Take him away! Take him away! Kill him on a cross!” Pilate asked them, “Do you want me to kill your king on a cross?” The leading priests answered, “The only king we have is Caesar!”
16. So Pilate handed Jesus over to them to be killed on a cross. The soldiers took Jesus.
17. He carried his own cross to a place called “The Place of the Skull.” (In Aramaic the name of this place is “Golgotha.”)
18. There they nailed Jesus to the cross. They also nailed two other men to crosses. They put them on each side of Jesus with him in the middle.
19. Pilate told them to write a sign and put it on the cross. The sign said, “jesus of nazareth, the king of the jews.”