Then said Pilate unto the chief priests and the multitudes, I find nothing culpable in this man.

said unto them, Ye have brought this man to me, as one who perverteth the people: and lo! on examining him before you, I have found nothing culpable in this man, respecting the charges ye bring against him:

Or have ye not read in the law, that on the sabbaths the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are not culpable?