John 19:5-16 - Pilate Sentences Jesus To Death

⁵ Then Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorn branches, and the purple robe. And Pilate said to them: Be hold the man!

⁶ When the chief priests and their attendants saw him, they cried out, saying: Crucify him, crucify him. Pilate said to them: Do you take him and crucify him; for I find no fault in him.

⁷ The Jews answered: We have a law, and according to our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.

⁸ Then, when Pilate heard this word, he was the more afraid; ⁹ and he went into the governor's palace again, and said to Jesus: Whence are you? But Jesus gave him no answer. ¹⁰ Then Pilate said to him: Do you not speak to me? Do you not know that I have authority to crucify you, and authority to release you?

¹¹ Jesus answered: You could have no authority over me, had it not been given you from above. Therefore, he that delivered me to you, has the greater sin.

¹² After this Pilate sought to release him. But the Jews cried out, saying: If you release this man, you are not Caesar's friend. Every one that makes himself a king, speaks against Caesar

¹³ Then Pilate, when he heard that word, led Jesus out, and sat on the judgment-seat, in a place called the Pavement, but in Hebrew, Gabbatha; ¹⁴ it was the preparation for the passover, and about the third hour; and he said to the Jews, Behold your king!

¹⁵ But they cried out: Away with him, away with him; crucify him! Pilate said to them: Shall I crucify your king? The chief priests answered: "We have no king but Caesar

¹⁶ Then he, therefore, delivered him to them to be crucified. And they took Jesus, and led him away.