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

⁵ Then came Jesus out, bearing the thorny crown, and the purple robe. And he said to them, Behold the man!

⁶ When the chief priests therefore and the officers saw him, they cried vociferously, saying, Crucify him! crucify him! Pilate saith to them, Take him yourselves, and crucify him: for I have not found in him a fault.

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

⁸ When Pilate then heard this saying, he was the more afraid: ⁹ and entered into the praetorium again, and saith to Jesus, From whence art thou? But Jesus gave him no answer. ¹⁰ Then saith Pilate to him, Dost thou not speak to me? dost thou not know that I have power to crucify thee, and that I have power to release thee?

¹¹ Jesus answered, Thou wouldest have had no authority over me, unless it had been given thee from above: for this reason, he that hath delivered me up to thee hath the greater crime.

¹² Upon this Pilate sought to release him: but the Jews clamoured, saying, If thou release this fellow, thou art no friend of Caesar's: every one who professes himself a king, speaks in opposition to Caesar.

¹³ When Pilate therefore heard this speech, he brought Jesus out, and sat down on the judgment seat, in a place called the Stone Pavement, but in the Hebrew, Gabbatha. ¹⁴ And it was the preparation of the passover, and about the sixth hour: and he saith to the Jews, Behold your King!

¹⁵ But they cried vociferously, Away with him, away! crucify him! Pilate saith unto them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar.

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