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- Catholic Giving - About USCCB 1* a Then Pilate took Jesus and
had him scourged. 2And the soldiers wove a crown out of thorns
and placed it on his head, and clothed him in a purple cloak,
3and they came to him and said, “Hail, King of the Jews!” And
they struck him repeatedly. 4Once more Pilate went out and said
to them, “Look, I am bringing him out to you, so that you may
know that I find no guilt in him.”b 5So Jesus came out, wearing
the crown of thorns and the purple cloak. And he said to them,
“Behold, the man!”c 6When the chief priests and the guards saw
him they cried out, “Crucify him, crucify him!” Pilate said to
them, “Take him yourselves and crucify him. I find no guilt in
him.”d 7* The Jews answered,e “We have a law, and according to
that law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of
God.” 8Now when Pilate heard this statement, he became even more
afraid, 9and went back into the praetorium and said to Jesus,
“Where are you