⁵ When Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe,^(A) Pilate said to them, “Here is the man!”

⁶ As soon as the chief priests and their officials saw him, they shouted, “Crucify! Crucify!”

But Pilate answered, “You take him and crucify him.^(B) As for me, I find no basis for a charge against him.”^(C)

⁷ The Jewish leaders insisted, “We have a law, and according to that law he must die,^(D) because he claimed to be the Son of God.”^(E)