²¹ but they kept shouting, “Crucify, crucify him!”

¹⁵ They cried out, “Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!” Pilate asked them, “Shall I crucify your King?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar.”

²³ But they kept urgently demanding with loud shouts that he should be crucified, and their voices prevailed.

¹³ They shouted back, “Crucify him!”

²² Pilate said to them, “Then what should I do with Jesus who is called the Messiah?”^[a] All of them said, “Let him be crucified!” ²³ Then he asked, “Why, what evil has he done?” But they shouted all the more, “Let him be crucified!”

Pilate Hands Jesus Over to Be Crucified

²⁴ So when Pilate saw that he could do nothing but rather that a riot was beginning, he took some water and washed his hands before the crowd, saying, “I am innocent of this man’s blood;^[b] see to it yourselves.”^{(A) 25} Then the people as a whole answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!”^(B)