Jesus Flogged and Mocked

19 Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged. The soldiers also twisted together a crown(A) of thorns, put it on his head, and clothed him in a purple robe. And they kept coming up to him(B) and saying, “Hail, king of the Jews!” and were slapping his face.

Pilate went outside again and said to them, “Look, I’m bringing him out to you to let you know I find no grounds(C) for charging him.” Then Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe.(D) Pilate said to them, “Here is the man!” (E)

Pilate Sentences Jesus to Death

When the chief priests and the temple servants[a] saw him, they shouted, “Crucify! Crucify!”

Pilate responded, “Take him and crucify him yourselves, since I find no grounds for charging him.”

“We have a law,” the Jews replied to him, “and according to that law he ought to die,(F) because he made himself the Son of God.”(G)

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Footnotes

  1. 19:6 Or temple police, or officers

19 Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged.(A) And the soldiers wove a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and they dressed him in a purple robe.(B) They kept coming up to him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and striking him on the face.(C) Pilate went out again and said to them, “Look, I am bringing him out to you to let you know that I find no case against him.”(D) So Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate[a] said to them, “Behold the man!”(E) When the chief priests and the police saw him, they shouted, “Crucify him! Crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves and crucify him; I find no case against him.”(F) The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and according to that law he ought to die because he has claimed to be the Son of God.”(G)

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Footnotes

  1. 19.5 Gk He