²² And he a third time said unto them, `Why, what evil did he? no cause of death did I find in him; having chastised him, then, I will release `him'.'

¹⁴ said unto them, `Ye brought to me this man as perverting the people, and lo, I before you having examined, found in this man no fault in those things ye bring forward against him;

¹⁶ having chastised, therefore, I will release him,'

²⁰ Pilate again then -- wishing to release Jesus -- called to them,

¹⁹ but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and unspotted -- Christ's --

¹⁸ because also Christ once for sin did suffer -- righteous for unrighteous -- that he might lead us to God, having been put to death indeed, in the flesh, and having been made alive in the spirit,