Luke 23:1-5 - Jesus Brought Before Pilate

¹ And the whole assemblage of them arose, and carried him before Pilate. ² And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this man perverting our nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, and saying that he himself is the Christ, the king.

³ And Pilate asked him, saying, Art thou the king of the Jews? And he answering said to him, I am.

⁴ And Pilate said to the chief priests and the crowd, I find nothing criminal in this man.

⁵ But they were the more violent, saying, He stirreth up the people, teaching throughout all Judaea, beginning from Galilee, even to this place.

²⁸ Then they lead Jesus from Caiaphas to the governors palace; and it was early. And they did not themselves go into the palace, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the passover.

²⁹ Pilate therefore went out to them, and saith, What accusation do ye bring against this man?

³⁰ They answered and said to him, If he had not been doing evil, we would not have delivered him up to thee.

³¹ Pilate therefore said to them, Take him yourselves, and judge him according to your law. The Jews therefore said to him, It is not lawful for us to put any one to death. ³² That the words of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spoke, signifying what kind of death he was to die.