14 It was about noon on the day when they prepared the Passover meal.
Pilate said to the Jews, ‘Here is your king!’
15 But they shouted, ‘Take him away! Take him away! Kill him on a cross!’
Pilate asked them, ‘Do you want me to kill your king on a cross?’
The leaders of the priests answered, ‘Caesar is the only ruler that we call king.’
16 Then Pilate gave Jesus to them, so that they could kill him on a cross.
Soldiers fix Jesus to a cross
The soldiers took hold of Jesus. 17 He was carrying the cross on which they would kill him. He went out to the place called ‘The Place of the Skull’. This place is called ‘Golgotha’ in the Jewish language.
19:17The place is also called Calvary.
18 When they arrived there, the soldiers fixed Jesus to the cross. They put two other men on crosses near to him. They were on each side of him and Jesus was between them.
