13 They shouted, “Kill him on a cross!”
14 Pilate asked, “Why? What wrong has he done?”But they shouted louder and louder, “Kill him on a cross!”
15 Pilate wanted to please the crowd. So he freed Barabbas for them. And Pilate told the soldiers to beat Jesus with whips. Then he gave Jesus to the soldiers to be killed on a cross.
16 Pilate’s soldiers took Jesus into the governor’s palace (called the Praetorium). They called all the other soldiers together.
17 They put a purple robe on Jesus. Then they used thorny branches to make a crown. They put it on his head.
18 Then they called out to him, “Hail, King of the Jews!”
19 The soldiers beat Jesus on the head many times with a stick. They also spit on him. Then they made fun of him by bowing on their knees and worshiping him.