Mark 15:15

15 Pilate decided to do what the crowd wanted. So he let Barabbas go free. He said to his soldiers, ‘Hit Jesus many times with a whip. Then take him and fix him on a cross to die.’

15:15Pilate was afraid that the crowd would start to fight. So he did what they had asked him to do. He wanted them to be happy.

15:15People with authority used a whip to punish someone who had done something wrong. It had long narrow pieces of leather. And there were pieces of metal on the ends of them.