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When the high priests and the officials saw him, they shouted, "Crucify him! Crucify him!" Pilate told them, "You take him and crucify him. I find no basis for a charge against him."
In the same way the high priests, along with the scribes and elders, were also making fun of him. They kept saying,
Her leaders judge for the money, her priests teach only when they're paid, and her prophets prophesy for cash. Even so, don't they all rely on the LORD as they ask, "The LORD is among us, is he not? Nothing bad can possibly happen to us!'
Its prophets are arrogant and treacherous. Its priests have contaminated the sanctuary. They give perverse interpretations of the Law.
But the high priests stirred up the crowd to get him to release Barabbas for them instead.
The prophets prophesy falsely, the priests rule by their own authority, and my people love it this way. But what will you do in the end?"
Her priests have violated my Law and profaned my sacred things. They didn't differentiate between what's sacred and what's common. They didn't instruct others to discern clean from unclean things. They refused to keep my Sabbaths.
"Hear this, priests, pay attention, house of Israel, listen, royal family! For judgment is coming your way, because you have been a trap to Mizpah, a snare spread out on Mount Tabor.
Like a gang of thieves that stalk a man, priests commit murder along the road to Shechem, committing shameful crimes.
But the high priests and elders persuaded the crowds to ask for Barabbas and to demand that Jesus be put to death.
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