1. So Pilate then took Yeshua, and flogged him.
2. The soldiers twisted thorns into a crown, and put it on his head, and dressed him in a purple garment.
3. They kept saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and they kept slapping him.
4. Then Pilate went out again, and said to them, “Behold, I bring him out to you, that you may know that I find no basis for a charge against him.”
5. Yeshua therefore came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple garment. Pilate said to them, “Behold, the man!”
6. When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him, they shouted, saying, “Crucify! Crucify!”Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves, and crucify him, for I find no basis for a charge against him.”
7. The Judeans answered him, “We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.”