12. and both Pilate and Herod became friends on that day with one another, for they were before at enmity between themselves.
13. And Pilate having called together the chief priests, and the rulers, and the people,
14. said unto them, `Ye brought to me this man as perverting the people, and lo, I before you having examined, found in this man no fault in those things ye bring forward against him;
15. no, nor yet Herod, for I sent you back unto him, and lo, nothing worthy of death is having been done by him;
16. having chastised, therefore, I will release him,'
17. for it was necessary for him to release to them one at every feast,
18. and they cried out--the whole multitude--saying, `Away with this one, and release to us Barabbas,'
19. who had been, because of a certain sedition made in the city, and murder, cast into prison.
20. Pilate again then--wishing to release Jesus--called to them,