Luke 23:1-5 - Jesus Brought Before Pilate

¹ Then the whole company rose up and brought him to Pilate, ² and began to accuse him. "We have found this fellow perverting our nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, and proclaiming that he is the Messiah and King."

³ Then Pilate asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" And he answered him saying, "Certainly I am."

⁴ And Pilate said to the chief priest and the crowd, "I find no harm in this man."

⁵ But they repeatedly insisted, "He is stirring up the people throughout all Judea with his teaching which started from Galilee."

²⁸ From the house of Caiaphas they took Jesus to the Praetorium, and it was dawn. They themselves would not enter the Praetorium, in order that they might not be ceremonially defiled, but might be able to eat the Passover.

²⁹ So Pilate came outside to them and asked, "What charge do you bring against this man?"

³⁰ In reply they said, "If he had not been a criminal, we should not have handed him over you."

³¹ "Take him yourselves," answered Pilate, "and judge him according to your law." ³² The Jews answered him, "We are not allowed to put anyone to death" (that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled in which he predicted the kind of death he was to die).