Mark 15:6-19

6Now at the [Passover] feast Pilate used to set free for them any one prisoner whom they requested.

7The man called Barabbas was imprisoned with the insurrectionists (revolutionaries) who had committed murder in the civil rebellion.

8The crowd came up and began asking Pilate to do as he usually did for them.

9Pilate answered them, saying, “Do you want me to set free for you the King of the Jews?”

10For he was aware that the chief priests had turned Jesus over to him because of envy and resentment.

11But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to get him to release Barabbas for them instead.

12Again Pilate answered, “Then what shall I do with Him whom you call the King of the Jews?”

13They screamed back, “Crucify Him!”

14But Pilate asked them, “Why, what has He done that is evil?” But they screamed all the more, “Crucify Him!”

15So Pilate, wishing to satisfy the crowd, set Barabbas free for them; and after having Jesus scourged, he handed Him over [to his soldiers] to be crucified.

16The soldiers led Him away into the palace (that is, the Praetorium), and they called together the entire [Roman] battalion [of 600 soldiers].

17They dressed Him up in [a ranking Roman officer’s robe of] purple, and after twisting [together] a crown of thorns, they placed it on Him;

18and they began saluting and mocking Him: “Hail, King of the Jews!”

19They kept beating Him on the head with a reed and spitting on Him, and kneeling and bowing in [mock] homage to Him.