Mat 27:20
But the chief priests and elders persuaded the multitude that they should ask Barabbas, and destroy Jesus.
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But they cried out, Away with {him}, away with {him}, crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar.
But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you;
Then cried they all again, saying, Not this man, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a robber.
But the chief priests moved the people, that he should rather release Barabbas unto them.
And they cried out all at once, saying, Away with this {man}, and release unto us Barabbas:
And the same time there arose no small stir about that way.
And with these sayings scarce restrained they the people, that they had not done sacrifice unto them.
But I {am} a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening. {in...: Heb. between the two evenings}
But before they lay down, the men of the city, {even} the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter:
And how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death, and have crucified him.
Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate without an inhabitant? And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.
And when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying, Hosanna to the Son of David; they were sore displeased,
But the chief priests moved the people, that he should rather release Barabbas unto them.
From that {time} many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.
But ye have a custom, that I should release unto you one at the passover: will ye therefore that I release unto you the King of the Jews?
And as they spake unto the people, the priests, and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them, {captain: or, ruler}
And there came thither {certain} Jews from Antioch and Iconium, who persuaded the people, and, having stoned Paul, drew {him} out of the city, supposing he had been dead.
Ye have condemned {and} killed the just; {and} he doth not resist you.
Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, {and} went not out of the door?
For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.
They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I {was} the song of the drunkards. {drunkards: Heb. drinkers of strong drink}
Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain: