Luke 23:11-36

11Even Herod with his soldiers treated him with contempt and mocked him. Then, dressing him in elegant clothes, Herod sent him back to Pilate.

12That very day Herod and Pilate became friends with each other, for prior to this they had been enemies.

13Then Pilate called together the chief priests, the rulers, and the people,

14and said to them, “You brought me this man as one who was misleading the people. When I examined him before you, I did not find this man guilty of anything you accused him of doing.

15Neither did Herod, for he sent him back to us. Look, he has done nothing deserving death.

16I will therefore have him flogged and release him.”

18But they all shouted out together, “Take this man away! Release Barabbas for us!”

19(This was a man who had been thrown into prison for an insurrection started in the city, and for murder.)

20Pilate addressed them once again because he wanted to release Jesus.

21But they kept on shouting, “Crucify, crucify him!”

22A third time he said to them, “Why? What wrong has he done? I have found him guilty of no crime deserving death. I will therefore flog him and release him.”

23But they were insistent, demanding with loud shouts that he be crucified. And their shouts prevailed.

24So Pilate decided that their demand should be granted.

25He released the man they asked for, who had been thrown in prison for insurrection and murder. But he handed Jesus over to their will.

26As they led him away, they seized Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country. They placed the cross on his back and made him carry it behind Jesus.

27A great number of the people followed him, among them women who were mourning and wailing for him.

28But Jesus turned to them and said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.

29For this is certain: The days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore children, and the breasts that never nursed!’

30Then they will begin to say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us!’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us!’

31For if such things are done when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?”

32Two other criminals were also led away to be executed with him.

33So when they came to the place that is called “The Skull,” they crucified him there, along with the criminals, one on his right and one on his left.

34[But Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.”] Then they threw dice to divide his clothes.

35The people also stood there watching, but the rulers ridiculed him, saying, “He saved others. Let him save himself if he is the Christ of God, his chosen one!”

36The soldiers also mocked him, coming up and offering him sour wine,