saying, "Are you the King of the Jews?" Jesus said to him, "So you say." 027:012 When he was accused by the chief priests and elders, he answered nothing. 027:013 Then Pilate said to him, "Don't you hear how many things they testify against you?" 027:014 He gave him no answer, not even one word, so that the governor marveled greatly. 027:015 Now at the feast the governor was accustomed to release to the multitude one prisoner, whom they desired. 027:016 They had then a notable prisoner, called Barabbas. 027:017 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?" 027:018 For he knew that because of envy they had delivered him up. 027:019 While he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent to him, saying, "Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him." 027:020 Now the chief priests and the elders persuaded the multitudes to ask for Barabbas, and destroy Jesus. 027:021 But the governor answered them, "Which of the two do you want me to release to you?" They said, "Barabbas!" 027:022 Pilate said to them, "What then shall I do to Jesus, who is called Christ?" They all said to him, "Let him be crucified!" 027:023 But the governor said, "Why? What evil has he done?" But they cried out exceedingly, saying, "Let him be crucified!" 027:024 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." 027:025 All the people answered, "May his blood be on us, and on our children!" 027:026 Then he released to them Barabbas, but Jesus he flogged and delivered to be crucified. 027:027 Then the governor's soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium, and gathered the whole garrison together against him. 027:028 They stripped him, and put a scarlet robe on him. 027:029 They braided a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and a reed in his right hand; and they kneeled down before him, and mocked him, saying, "Hail, King of the Jews!" 027:030 They spat on him, and took the reed and struck him on the head. 027:031 When they had mocked him, they took the robe off of him, and put his clothes on him, and led him away to crucify him. 027:032 As they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name, and they compelled him to go with them, that he might carry his cross. 027:033 They came to a place called "Golgotha," that is to say, "The place of a skull." 027:034 They gave him sour wine to drink mixed with gall. When he had tasted it, he would not drink.