for the mob of the people followed, crying out, “Away with him!”
They cried out, “Away with him, away with him, crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your King?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar.”
Up to this word they listened to him. Then they raised their voices and said, “Away with such a fellow from the earth! For he should not be allowed to live.”
But they all cried out together, “Away with this man, and release to us Barabbas”—
when slandered, we entreat. We have become, and are still, like the scum of the world, the refuse of all things.
Now when they heard these things they were enraged, and they ground their teeth at him.
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