But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you;

And they gave him audience unto this word, and {then} lifted up their voices, and said, Away with such a {fellow} from the earth: for it is not fit that he should live.

For the multitude of the people followed after, crying, Away 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?

Now at {that} feast he released unto them one prisoner, whomsoever they desired.

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.

Now at {that} feast the governor was wont to release unto the people a prisoner, whom they would.

For the multitude of the people followed after, crying, Away with him.

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.

He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were {our} faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. {we hid...: or, he hid as it were his face from us: Heb. as an hiding of faces from him, or, from us}

And there was {one} named Barabbas, {which lay} bound with them that had made insurrection with him, who had committed murder in the insurrection.

But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you;

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}

Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:

Then cried they all again, saying, Not this man, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a robber.

And they gave him audience unto this word, and {then} lifted up their voices, and said, Away with such a {fellow} from the earth: for it is not fit that he should live.

But now {they that are} younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock. {younger...: Heb. of fewer days than I}

Thus saith the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, {and} his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the LORD that is faithful, {and} the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee. {whom man...: or, that is despised in soul}

He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both {are} abomination to the LORD.

But the chief priests and elders persuaded the multitude that they should ask Barabbas, and destroy Jesus.

And they had then a notable prisoner, called Barabbas.