John 19:5-16 - Pilate Sentences Jesus To Death

⁵ So out came Jesus, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe; and Pilate said, "Here the man is!"

⁶ Now when the high priests and their attendants saw him, they yelled, "Crucify him, crucify him!" Pilate said, "Take him and crucify him yourselves! I find nothing wrong about him."

⁷ The Jews retorted, "But we have a Law, and by [our] Law he is bound to die, because he has made himself out to be God's Son."

⁸ Now when Pilate heard that, he was still more afraid; ⁹ he went inside the praetorium again and asked Jesus, "Where do you come from?" Jesus made no reply. ¹⁰ Then Pilate said, "You will not speak to me? Do you not know it is in my power to release you or to crucify you?"

¹¹ Jesus answered, "You would have no power over me, unless it had been granted you from above. So you are less guilty than he who betrayed me to you."

¹² This made Pilate anxious to release him, but the Jews yelled, "If you release him, you are no friend of Caesar's! Anyone who makes himself a king is against Caesar!"

¹³ On hearing this, Pilate brought Jesus out and seated him on the tribunal at a spot called the 'mosaic pavement' ??the Hebrew name is Gabbatha ¹⁴ (it was the day of Preparation for the passover, about noon). "There is your king!" he said to the Jews.

¹⁵ Then they yelled, "Off with him! Off with him! Crucify him!" "Crucify your king?" said Pilate. The high priests retorted, "We have no king but Caesar!"

¹⁶ Then Pilate handed him over to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus,