19. As he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent a message to him: “Have nothing to do with that innocent man; I have suffered greatly as a result of a dream about him today.”
20. But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowds to ask for Barabbas and to have Jesus killed.
21. The governor asked them, “Which of the two do you want me to release for you?” And they said, “Barabbas!”
22. Pilate said to them, “Then what should I do with Jesus who is called the Christ?” They all said, “Crucify him!”
23. He asked, “Why? What wrong has he done?” But they shouted more insistently, “Crucify him!”
24. When Pilate saw that he could do nothing, but that instead a riot was starting, he took some water, washed his hands before the crowd and said, “I am innocent of this man’s blood. You take care of it yourselves!”
25. In reply all the people said, “Let his blood be on us and on our children!”
26. Then he released Barabbas for them. But after he had Jesus flogged, he handed him over to be crucified.
27. Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the governor’s residence and gathered the whole cohort around him.
28. They stripped him and put a scarlet robe around him,
29. and after braiding a crown of thorns, they put it on his head. They put a staff in his right hand, and kneeling down before him, they mocked him: “Hail, king of the Jews!”
30. They spat on him and took the staff and struck him repeatedly on the head.
31. When they had mocked him, they stripped him of the robe and put his own clothes back on him. Then they led him away to crucify him.