[After a brutal scourging, a mutilated Jesus is brought before Pilate and Abenader, the latter being horrified at what the guards did to Jesus, but Pilate is barely surprised. He carefully pulls Jesus and presents him before the jeering crowd] [in both Hebrew and Latin]

Behold the Man!

CRUCIFY HIM!

[angrily]

Is this not enough? Look at him! [the crowd continues to yell CRUCIFY HIM] You want me to crucify your king?

King?! We have no king but Caesar!

[turns to Jesus, in Latin]

Speak to me, I have the power to have you crucified, or else set you free.

[in Latin]

You have no power over me, unless it is given to you from above, but he who has delivered me to you has the greater sin.

If you release him, governor, you are no friend to Caesar!

[The jeering crowd begins to riot, provoking the Roman guards to brutally beat them back. Unwilling to cause an uprising, Pilate washes his hands and acquiesces to the crowd's demands] [to Caiaphas]

Remember that it is you who wants him dead, not I! His blood is in your hands! [turns to Abenader] Abenader, do what they want.