And from there on Pilate sought to release him: but the Jews cried out, saying, If you let this man go, you are not Caesar's friend: whosoever makes himself a king speaks against Caesar.
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Tertullian of Carthage
AD 220
Slay Him, saying to Pilate, when he was desirous to dismiss Him, "His blood be upon us, and upon our children; ".
and, "If thou dismiss him, thou art not a friend of Caesar; ".
"-the clamour whereby it had extorted His surrender to the cross.