20. Wishing to release יהושע, then, Pilate appealed to them again.
21. But they were calling out, saying, “Impale! Impale Him!”
22. And he said to them the third time, “Why, what evil has He done? I have found no reason for death in Him. Having disciplined Him then, I shall release Him.”
23. But with loud voices they insisted, asking for Him to be impaled. And the voices of these men and of the chief priests were prevailing.
24. And Pilate pronounced sentence that what they asked should be done.
25. And he released the one they asked for, who for uprising and murder had been thrown into prison, but he handed יהושע over to their wishes.
26. And as they led Him away, they laid hold of a certain man, Shim‛on a Cyrenian, who was coming from the field, and they put the stake on him, to bear it behind יהושע.
27. And a great number of the people were following Him, and women who also were mourning and lamenting Him.
28. But יהושע, turning to them, said, “Daughters of Yerushalayim, do not weep for Me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.
29. “For look, days are coming in which they shall say, ‘Blessed are the barren, and wombs that never bore, and the breasts which never nursed!’
30. “Then they shall begin ‘to say to the mountains, “Fall on us!” and to the hills, “Cover us!” ’
31. “Because if they do this to the green tree, what is going to be done to the dry tree?”
32. And two others also, evil-doers, were led with Him to be put to death.