Luke 23:1-5 - Jesus Brought Before Pilate
1 The whole company of them rose up and brought him before Pilate. 2 They accused him, saying: We found this man perverting our nation. He forbids payment of tax to Caesar. He claims to be Christ a king.
3 Pilate asked him: Are you King of the Jews? He answered him: You say it.
4 Pilate said to the chief priests and the crowds: I find no fault in this man.
5 They were more insistent saying: He excites the people throughout all Judea, beginning in Galilee even to this place.
28 They lead Jesus from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. It was early and they did not enter directly into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the Passover.
29 Pilate went to them and asked: What accusation do you make against this man?
30 They answered: If this man were not an evildoer we would not deliver him to you.
31 Pilate replied: Take him yourselves and judge him according to your law. The Jews said: It is not lawful for us to put any man to death. 32 Thus the word of Jesus would be fulfilled when he spoke about the kind of death he would experience.