Pilate saith unto them, "Shall I crucify your King?"
The chief priests answered, "We have no king but Cæsar."
So when Pilate saw that he prevailed nothing, but rather that a tumult was arising, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, "I am innocent of the blood of this righteous man; see ye to it."
And all the people answered and said, "His blood be on us, and on our children."
And they were urgent with loud voices asking that he might be crucified. And their voices prevailed.
And Pilate, wishing to content the multitude, gave sentence that what they asked for should be done. And he released unto them Barabbas, him that for insurrection and murder had been cast into prison, whom they asked for; but Jesus he delivered up to their will.
And when they had mocked him, they took off from him the robe, and put on him his garments, and led him away to crucify him.
The Sorrowful Way.
They took Jesus therefore: and he went out, bearing the cross for himself.