Luke 23:1-5 - Jesus Brought Before Pilate

¹ Then the whole assembly rose and brought Him to Pilate, and began to accuse Him. ² "We have found this man," they said, "an agitator among our nation, forbidding the payment of tribute to Caesar, and claiming to be himself an anointed king."

³ Then Pilate asked Him, "You, then, are the King of the Jews?" "It is as you say," He replied.

⁴ Pilate said to the High Priests and to the crowd, "I can find no crime in this man."

⁵ But they violently insisted. "He stirs up the people," they said, "throughout all Judaea with His teaching--even from Galilee (where He first started)

²⁸ So they brought Jesus from Caiaphas's house to the Praetorium. It was the early morning, and they would not enter the Praetorium themselves for fear of defilement, and in order that they might be able to eat the Passover.

²⁹ Accordingly Pilate came out to them and inquired, "What accusation have you to bring against this man?"

³⁰ "If the man were not a criminal," they replied, "we would not have handed him over to you."

³¹ "Take him yourselves," said Pilate, "and judge him by your Law." "We have no power," replied the Jews, "to put any man to death." ³² They said this that the words might be fulfilled in which Jesus predicted the kind of death He was to die.