Matthew 27:22

World English Bible (2000)

Pilate said to them, "What then shall I do to Jesus, who is called Christ?" They all said to him, "Let him be crucified!"

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  • John 19:14-15 : 14 Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passover, at about the sixth hour. He said to the Jews, "Behold, your King!" 15 They cried out, "Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!" Pilate said to them, "Shall I crucify your King?" The chief priests answered, "We have no king but Caesar!"
  • Acts 13:38 : 38 Be it known to you therefore, brothers, that through this man is proclaimed to you remission of sins,
  • Job 31:31 : 31 if the men of my tent have not said, 'Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?'
  • Ps 22:8-9 : 8 "He trusts in Yahweh; let him deliver him. Let him rescue him, since he delights in him." 9 But you brought me out of the womb. You made me trust at my mother's breasts.
  • Isa 49:7 : 7 Thus says Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, [and] his Holy One, to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: "Kings shall see and arise; princes, and they shall worship; because of Yahweh who is faithful, [even] the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you."
  • Isa 53:2-3 : 2 For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He has no form nor comeliness. When we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. 3 He was despised, and rejected by men; a man of suffering, and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn't respect him.
  • Zech 11:8 : 8 I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.
  • Matt 1:16 : 16 Jacob became the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, from whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.
  • Matt 27:17 : 17 When therefore they were gathered together, Pilate said to them, "Whom do you want me to release to you? Barabbas, or Jesus, who is called Christ?"
  • Mark 14:55 : 55 Now the chief priests and the whole council sought witnesses against Jesus to put him to death, and found none.
  • Mark 15:12-14 : 12 Pilate again asked them, "What then should I do to him whom you call the King of the Jews?" 13 They cried out again, "Crucify him!" 14 Pilate said to them, "Why, what evil has he done?" But they cried out exceedingly, "Crucify him!"
  • Luke 23:20-24 : 20 Then Pilate spoke to them again, wanting to release Jesus, 21 but they shouted, saying, "Crucify! Crucify him!" 22 He said to them the third time, "Why? What evil has this man done? I have found no capital crime in him. I will therefore chastise him and release him." 23 But they were urgent with loud voices, asking that he might be crucified. Their voices and the voices of the chief priests prevailed. 24 Pilate decreed that what they asked for should be done.

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  • Matt 27:23-26
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    23 But the governor said, "Why? What evil has he done?" But they cried out exceedingly, saying, "Let him be crucified!"

    24 So when Pilate saw that nothing was being gained, but rather that a disturbance was starting, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, "I am innocent of the blood of this righteous person. You see to it."

    25 All the people answered, "May his blood be on us, and on our children!"

    26 Then he released to them Barabbas, but Jesus he flogged and delivered to be crucified.

  • Mark 15:12-15
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    12 Pilate again asked them, "What then should I do to him whom you call the King of the Jews?"

    13 They cried out again, "Crucify him!"

    14 Pilate said to them, "Why, what evil has he done?" But they cried out exceedingly, "Crucify him!"

    15 Pilate, wishing to please the multitude, released Barabbas to them, and handed over Jesus, when he had flogged him, to be crucified.

  • Luke 23:20-25
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    20 Then Pilate spoke to them again, wanting to release Jesus,

    21 but they shouted, saying, "Crucify! Crucify him!"

    22 He said to them the third time, "Why? What evil has this man done? I have found no capital crime in him. I will therefore chastise him and release him."

    23 But they were urgent with loud voices, asking that he might be crucified. Their voices and the voices of the chief priests prevailed.

    24 Pilate decreed that what they asked for should be done.

    25 He released him who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder, for whom they asked, but he delivered Jesus up to their will.

  • Matt 27:15-17
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    15 Now at the feast the governor was accustomed to release to the multitude one prisoner, whom they desired.

    16 They had then a notable prisoner, called Barabbas.

    17 When therefore they were gathered together, Pilate said to them, "Whom do you want me to release to you? Barabbas, or Jesus, who is called Christ?"

  • Matt 27:20-21
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    20 Now the chief priests and the elders persuaded the multitudes to ask for Barabbas, and destroy Jesus.

    21 But the governor answered them, "Which of the two do you want me to release to you?" They said, "Barabbas!"

  • Mark 15:8-9
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    8 The multitude, crying aloud, began to ask him to do as he always did for them.

    9 Pilate answered them, saying, "Do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?"

  • John 19:5-6
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    5 Jesus therefore came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple garment. Pilate said to them, "Behold, the man!"

    6 When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him, they shouted, saying, "Crucify! Crucify!" Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves, and crucify him, for I find no basis for a charge against him."

  • John 19:14-16
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    14 Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passover, at about the sixth hour. He said to the Jews, "Behold, your King!"

    15 They cried out, "Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!" Pilate said to them, "Shall I crucify your King?" The chief priests answered, "We have no king but Caesar!"

    16 So then he delivered him to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus and led him away.

  • John 18:29-33
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    29 Pilate therefore went out to them, and said, "What accusation do you bring against this man?"

    30 They answered him, "If this man weren't an evildoer, we wouldn't have delivered him up to you."

    31 Pilate therefore said to them, "Take him yourselves, and judge him according to your law." Therefore the Jews said to him, "It is not lawful for us to put anyone to death,"

    32 that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spoke, signifying by what kind of death he should die.

    33 Pilate therefore entered again into the Praetorium, called Jesus, and said to him, "Are you the King of the Jews?"

  • John 18:38-40
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    38 Pilate said to him, "What is truth?" When he had said this, he went out again to the Jews, and said to them, "I find no basis for a charge against him.

    39 But you have a custom, that I should release someone to you at the Passover. Therefore do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?"

    40 Then they all shouted again, saying, "Not this man, but Barabbas!" Now Barabbas was a robber.

  • Matt 27:2
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    2 and they bound him, and led him away, and delivered him up to Pontius Pilate, the governor.

  • John 18:35
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    35 Pilate answered, "I'm not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and the chief priests delivered you to me. What have you done?"

  • Mark 15:2
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    2 Pilate asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" He answered, "So you say."

  • Luke 23:18
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    18 But they all cried out together, saying, "Away with this man! Release to us Barabbas!"--

  • John 19:21-22
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    21 The chief priests of the Jews therefore said to Pilate, "Don't write, 'The King of the Jews,' but, 'he said, I am King of the Jews.'"

    22 Pilate answered, "What I have written, I have written."

  • Luke 23:3
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    3 Pilate asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" He answered him, "So you say."

  • Matt 27:11
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    11 Now Jesus stood before the governor: and the governor asked him, saying, "Are you the King of the Jews?" Jesus said to him, "So you say."

  • Luke 24:20
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    20 and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him up to be condemned to death, and crucified him.

  • Matt 26:66
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    66 What do you think?" They answered, "He is worthy of death!"

  • Matt 27:37
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    37 They set up over his head the accusation against him written, "THIS IS JESUS, THE KING OF THE JEWS."

  • Luke 23:1
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    1 The whole company of them rose up and brought him before Pilate.

  • John 19:19
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    19 Pilate wrote a title also, and put it on the cross. There was written, "JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS."

  • Matt 27:13
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    13 Then Pilate said to him, "Don't you hear how many things they testify against you?"

  • John 19:10
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    10 Pilate therefore said to him, "Aren't you speaking to me? Don't you know that I have power to release you, and have power to crucify you?"

  • Mark 15:4
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    4 Pilate again asked him, "Have you no answer? See how many things they testify against you!"