Luke 23:1-5 - Jesus Brought Before Pilate

¹ Then the whole body of them rose and led him to Pilate. ² They proceeded to accuse him, saying, "We have discovered this fellow perverting our nation, forbidding tribute being paid to Caesar, and alleging he is king messiah."

³ Pilate asked him, "Are you the king of the Jews?" He replied, "Certainly."

⁴ And Pilate said to the high priests and the crowds, "I cannot find anything criminal about him."

⁵ But they insisted, "He stirs up the people by teaching all over Judaea. He started from Galilee and now he is here."

²⁸ Then from the house of Caiaphas they took Jesus to the praetorium. (It was early morning.) They would not enter the praetorium themselves, in case of being ceremonially defiled, for they wanted to eat the passover;

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

³⁰ They retorted, "If he had not been a criminal, we would not have handed him over to you."

³¹ Then said Pilate, "Take him yourselves, and sentence him according to your own Law." The Jews said, "We have no right to put anyone to death" ³² (that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled, by which he had indicated the kind of death he was to die).