²² Pilate answered, "What I have written, I have written."

¹⁴ May God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release to you your other brother and Benjamin. If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved."

¹⁶ Go, gather together all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and fast you for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast in like manner; and so will I go in to the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.

⁷ Who stills the roaring of the seas, The roaring of their waves, And the turmoil of the nations.

¹⁰ Surely the wrath of man praises you. The survivors of your wrath are restrained.

²⁹ When he gave to the sea its boundary, That the waters should not violate his commandment, When he marked out the foundations of the earth;

¹² At this, Pilate was seeking to release him, but the Jews cried out, saying, "If you release this man, you aren't Caesar's friend! Everyone who makes himself a king speaks against Caesar!"