Luke 23:1-5 - Jesus Brought Before Pilate

¹ And the whole multitude of them, rising up, led 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 Christ a King!"

³ And Pilate asked Him, saying, "Art Thou the King of the Jews?" And He, answering, said to him, "You say it."

⁴ And Pilate said to the high priests and to the multitudes, "I find no fault in This Man."

⁵ But they were the more urgent, saying, "He stirreth up the people, teaching throughout the whole of Judaea, and beginning from Galilee even to this place."

²⁸ They led Jesus, therefore, from Caiaphas into the Praetorium; and it was early; and they themselves entered not into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the passover.

²⁹ Pilate, therefore, went out to them, and says, "What accusation do ye bring against this Man?"

³⁰ They answered and said to him, "If this Man were not an evil-doer, we would not have delivered Him up to you."

³¹ Pilate, therefore, said to them, "Take Him yourselves, and judge Him according to your law." The Jews said to him, "It is not lawful for us to kill anyone:" ³² that the word of Jesus might he fulfilled, which He spake, signifying by what manner of death He was about to die.