Luke 23:13-22

¹³So Pilate summoned the chief priests, and the leading men, and the people,

¹⁴and said to them, “You brought this man before me charged with misleading the people; and yet, for my part, though I examined him before you, I did not find this man to blame for any of the things of which you accuse him;

¹⁵nor did Herod either; for he has sent him back to us. And, as a fact, he has not done anything deserving death;

¹⁶so I will have him scourged, and then release him.”

¹⁸But they began to shout as one man, “Kill this fellow, but release Barabbas for us.”

¹⁹(Barabbas was a man who had been put in prison for a riot that had broken out in the city and for murder.)

²⁰Pilate, however, wanting to release Jesus, called to them again;

²¹but they kept calling out, “Crucify, crucify him!”

²²“Why, what harm has this man done?” Pilate said to them for the third time. “I have found nothing in him for which he could be condemned to death. So I will have him scourged, and then release him.”