LXVII.
Receives Him Back, Scourges and Delivers Him to Execution.
And Pilate, when he had called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people,
2 Said unto them, Ye have brought this man unto me, as one that perverteth the people: and, behold, I, having examined him before you, have found no fault in this man touching those things whereof ye accuse him:
3 No, nor yet Herod: for I sent you to him; and, lo, nothing worthy of death is done unto him.
4 I will therefore chastise him, and release him.
5 ¶ Now at that feast the governor was wont to release unto the people a prisoner, whom they would.
6 And they had then a notable prisoner, called Barabbas.
7 Therefore when they were gathered together, Pilate said unto them, Whom will ye that I release unto you? Barabbas, or Jesus which is called Christ?
8 For he knew that for envy they had delivered him.
