1And early in the morning the chief priests with the elders and scribes and all the council made their plans. Having bound Jesus, they carried him off and delivered him to Pilate.2And Pilate questioned him, "Are you the king of the Jews?" And answering he says to him, "You say."3And the high priests accused him of many things.4Then Pilate again questioned him, saying, "Do you not answer? Look how many things they accuse you of."5Then Jesus no longer answered, so that Pilate marveled.6Now at the festival he used to release to them one prisoner whom they requested.7And there was the one called Barabbas bound with the rebels who had done murder in the uprising.8And the crowd came up and began to ask him to do as he usually did for them.9Then Pilate answered them, saying, "Do you want me to release to you the king of the Jews?"10For he knew that because of envy the high priests had delivered him.11Then the high priests stirred up the crowd so that he would release Barabbas to them.12Then Pilate again answering said to them, "What therefore do you want that I do, the one whom you call the king of the Jews?"13Then they cried out again: "Crucify him."14Then Pilate said to them: "Why? What evil has he done?" But they cried out all the more: "Crucify him."15Then Pilate, wishing to satisfy the crowd, released Barabbas to them, and having whipped Jesus delivered him so that he might be crucified.