John 18:28–19:16

²⁸They led, therefore, Jesus from Caiaphas to the praetorium, and it was early, and they themselves did not enter into the praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but that they might eat the passover; ²⁹Pilate, therefore, went forth unto them, and said, ‘What accusation do ye bring against this man?’ ³⁰they answered and said to him, ‘If he were not an evil doer, we had not delivered him to thee.’ ³¹Pilate, therefore, said to them, ‘Take ye him—ye—and according to your law judge him;’ the Jews, therefore, said to him, ‘It is not lawful to us to put any one to death;’ ³²that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled which he said, signifying by what death he was about to die. ³³Pilate, therefore, entered into the praetorium again, and called Jesus, and said to him, ‘Thou art the King of the Jews?’ ³⁴Jesus answered him, ‘From thyself dost thou say this? or did others say it to thee about me?’ ³⁵Pilate answered, ‘Am I a Jew? thy nation, and the chief priests did deliver thee up to me; what didst thou?’ ³⁶Jesus answered, ‘My kingdom is not of this world; if my kingdom were of this world, my officers had struggled that I might not be delivered up to Jews; but now my kingdom is not from hence.’ ³⁷Pilate, therefore, said to him, ‘Art thou then a king?’ Jesus answered, ‘Thou dost say it; because a king I am, I for this have been born, and for this I have come to the world, that I may testify to the truth; every one who is of the truth, doth hear my voice.’ ³⁸Pilate saith to him, ‘What is truth?’ and this having said, again he went forth unto the Jews, and saith to them, ‘I do find no fault in him; ³⁹and ye have a custom that I shall release to you one in the passover; will ye, therefore, that I shall release to you the king of the Jews?’ ⁴⁰therefore they all cried out again, saying, ‘Not this one—but Barabbas;’ and Barabbas was a robber.

Chapter 19

¹Then, therefore, did Pilate take Jesus and scourge him, ²and the soldiers having plaited a crown of thorns, did place it on his head, and a purple garment they put around him, ³and said, ‘Hail! the king of the Jews;’ and they were giving him slaps. ⁴Pilate, therefore, again went forth without, and saith to them, ‘Lo, I do bring him to you without, that ye may know that in him I find no fault;’ ⁵Jesus, therefore, came forth without, bearing the thorny crown and the purple garment; and he saith to them, ‘Lo, the man!’ ⁶When, therefore, the chief priests and the officers did see him, they cried out, saying, ‘Crucify, crucify;’ Pilate saith to them, ‘Take ye him—ye, and crucify; for I find no fault in him;’ ⁷the Jews answered him, ‘We have a law, and according to our law he ought to die, for he made himself Son of God.’ ⁸When, therefore, Pilate heard this word, he was the more afraid, ⁹and entered again to the praetorium, and saith to Jesus, ‘Whence art thou?’ and Jesus gave him no answer. ¹⁰Pilate, therefore, saith to him, ‘To me dost thou not speak? hast thou not known that I have authority to crucify thee, and I have authority to release thee?’ ¹¹Jesus answered, ‘Thou wouldest have no authority against me, if it were not having been given thee from above; because of this, he who is delivering me up to thee hath greater sin.’ ¹²From this time was Pilate seeking to release him, and the Jews were crying out, saying, ‘If this one thou mayest release, thou art not a friend of Caesar; every one making himself a king, doth speak against Caesar.’ ¹³Pilate, therefore, having heard this word, brought Jesus without—and he sat down upon the tribunal—to a place called, ‘Pavement,’ and in Hebrew, Gabbatha; ¹⁴and it was the preparation of the passover, and as it were the sixth hour, and he saith to the Jews, ‘Lo, your king!’ ¹⁵and they cried out, ‘Take away, take away, crucify him;’ Pilate saith to them, ‘Your king shall I crucify?’ the chief priests answered, ‘We have no king except Caesar.’

¹⁶Then, therefore, he delivered him up to them, that he may be crucified, and they took Jesus and led him away,