Then when the high Priests and officers saw him, they cried, saying, [a]Crucify, crucify him. Pilate said unto them, Take ye him, and crucify him: for I find no fault in him.

The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.

[b]When Pilate then heard that word, he was the more afraid,

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Footnotes

  1. John 19:6 They will have him crucified, whom by an old custom of theirs, they should have stoned and hanged up as convict of blasphemy: but they desire to have him crucified after the manner of the Romans.
  2. John 19:8 Pilate’s conscience fighteth for Christ, but straightway it yieldeth, because it is not upholden with the singular virtue of God.

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