and God, what things before He had declared through the mouth of all His prophets, that the Christ should suffer, He did thus fulfil;

then the magistrate having gone away with officers, brought them without violence, for they were fearing the people, lest they should be stoned;

and no cause of death having found, they did ask of Pilate that he should be slain,

And Paul said, 'John, indeed, did baptize with a baptism of reformation, saying to the people that in him who is coming after him they should believe -- that is, in the Christ -- Jesus;'

And the soldiers' counsel was that they should kill the prisoners, lest any one having swam out should escape,