as he had ever done unto them. But Pilate answered them, saying:

"Will ye that I release unto you the King of the Jews?"

For he knew that the chief priests had delivered him for envy. But the
chief priests moved the people, that he should rather release Barabbas
unto them. And Pilate answered and said again unto them:

"What will ye then that I shall do unto him who ye call the King of the
Jews?"

And they cried out again, "Crucify him."

Then Pilate said unto them, "Why, what evil hath he done?" And they
cried out the more exceedingly, "Crucify him." And so Pilate, willing
to content the people, released Barabbas unto them, and delivered
Jesus, when he had scourged him, to be crucified.

And the soldiers led him away into the hall, called Praetorium; and
they call together the whole band. And they clothed him with purple,
and platted a crown of thorns, and put it about his head, and began to
salute him:

"Hail, King of the Jews!"

And they smote him on the head with a reed, and did spit upon him, and
bowing their knees worshipped him. And when they had mocked him, they
took off the purple from him, and put his own clothes on him, and led
him out to crucify him.