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Jews cried out, saying: "If thou release this man, thou art not Caesar's friend. For whosoever
maketh himself a king, speaketh against Caesar."

Now when Pilate had heard these words, he brought Jesus forth, and sat down in the judgment seat,
in the place that is called Lithostrotos, and in Hebrew Gabbatha. And it was the parasceve of the
Pasch, 19 about the sixth hour, and he saith to the Jews: "Behold your king!"

But they were instant with loud voices, requiring that He might be crucified. And they cried out:
"Away with Him! Away with Him! Crucify Him!" Pilate saith to them: "Shall I crucify your king?" The
chief priests answered: "We have no king but Caesar!"

And Pilate seeing that he prevailed nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, taking water,
washed his hands before the people, saying: "I am innocent of the blood of this just Man. Look you
to it." And the whole people answering, said: "His blood be upon us and our children:' And their
voices prevailed.

Then Pilate, being willing to satisfy the people, gave sentence that it should be as they required.
And he released unto them Barabbas, who for murder and sedition, had been cast into prison, whom
they had desired; but Jesus he delivered up to their will, to be crucified.

Matthew 27:24-30; Mark 15:15-19;
Luke 18:33; Luke 23:23-25; John 19:2-16

"Who hath believed our report? And to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? There is no beauty in
Him, nor comeliness. We have seen Him, and there was no sightliness, that we should be desirous of
Him: despised, and the most abject of men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with infirmity. And His
look was as it were hidden and despised, whereupon we esteemed Him not.

"Surely He hath borne our infirmities and carried our sorrows, and we have thought Him as it were a
leper, and as one struck by God and afflicted. But He was wounded for our iniquities; He was

19 The parasceve of the Pasch: That is, the day before the paschal Sabbath. The eve of every
Sabbath was called the parasceve, or day of preparation. But this was the eve of a high Sabbath,
viz., that which fell in the paschal week.