20. Pilate wanted to let Jesus go. So he made an appeal to the crowd again.
21. But they kept shouting, "Crucify him! Crucify him!"
22. Pilate spoke to them for the third time. "Why?" he asked. "What wrong has this man done? I have found no reason to have him put to death. So I will just have him whipped and let him go."
23. But with loud shouts they kept calling for Jesus to be crucified. The people's shouts won out.
24. So Pilate decided to give them what they wanted.