Matthew 27:25-27

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

²⁵ Then the people as a whole answered, ‘His blood be on us and on our children!’ ²⁶ So he released Barabbas for them; and after flogging Jesus, he handed him over to be crucified.

The Soldiers Mock Jesus

²⁷ Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the governor’s headquarters,^[a] and they gathered the whole cohort around him.