Barabbas

Outline/Summary Jesus is tormented, then executed After the people chose Jesus for execution over Barabbas, Pilate’s soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered an entire company of soldiers around him. They stripped off his clothes and put a scarlet robe on him and then twisted together a crown of thorns and placed it on his head.

Outline/Summary The chief priests convince Pilate to allow the execution of Jesus Jesus stood before the Roman governor, Pontius Pilate, who asked him, “Are you the king of the Jews?” “You have said so,” Jesus replied. When he was earlier accused by the chief priests and the elders of the people, Jesus had refused to answer. Pilate asked him,