Peter replied to Him, “Lord, if it is [really] You, command me to come to You on the water.”

but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble and sin [by leading him away from My teaching], it would be better for him to have a heavy millstone [as large as one turned by a donkey] hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.

Then his master called him and said to him, ‘You wicked and contemptible slave, I forgave all that [great] debt of yours because you begged me.

Jesus stopped and called them, and asked, “What do you want Me to do for you?”

But Jesus, aware of their malice, asked, “Why are you testing Me, you hypocrites?

So when they had assembled [for this purpose], Pilate said to them, “Whom do you want me to set free for you? Barabbas, or Jesus who is called Christ?”

The governor said to them, “Which of the two do you wish me to set free for you?” And they said, “Barabbas.”