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cut off, asked, “Didn’t I see you out there in the
olive grove with Jesus?” 27Again Peter denied it.
And immediately a rooster crowed.
Jesus’ Trial before Pilate
trial before Caiaphas ended in the
early hours of the morning. Then he was
taken to the headquarters of the Roman governor.* His accusers didn’t go inside because
it would defile them, and they wouldn’t be allowed to celebrate the Passover. 29 So Pilate,
the governor, went out to them and asked,
“What is your charge against this man?”
30 “We wouldn’t have handed him over to
you if he weren’t a criminal!” they retorted.
31 “Then take him away and judge him by
your own law,” Pilate told them.
“Only the Romans are permitted to execute
someone,” the Jewish leaders replied. 32 (This
fulfilled Jesus’ prediction about the way he
would die.*)
33 Then Pi
late went back into his head
quarters and called for Jesus to be brought to
him. “Are you the king of the Jews?” he asked
him.
34 Jesus replied, “Is this your own question,
or did others tell you about me?”
35 “Am I a Jew?” Pilate retorted. “Your own
people and their leading priests brought you
to me for trial. Why? What have you done?”
36
Jesus answered, “My Kingdom is not
an earthly kingdom. If it were, my followers
would fight to keep me from being handed
over to the Jewish leaders. But my Kingdom
is not of this world.”
37 Pilate said, “So you are a king?”
Jesus responded, “You say I am a king.
Actually, I was born and came into the world
to testify to the truth. All who love the truth
recognize that what I say is true.”
38 “What is truth?” Pi
late asked. Then he
went out again to the people and told them,
“He is not guilty of any crime. 39 But you have
a custom of asking me to release one prisoner
each year at Passover. Would you like me to
release this ‘King of the Jews’?”
40 But they shouted back, “No! Not this
man. We want Barabbas!” (Barabbas was a
revolutionary.)
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Jesus’
Jesus Sentenced to Death
Then Pilate had Jesus flogged with a
lead-tipped whip. 2 The soldiers wove a
crown of thorns and put it on his head, and
they put a purple robe on him. 3 “Hail! King of
the Jews!” they mocked, as they slapped him
across the face.
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4 Pilate
went outside again and said to the
people, “I am going to bring him out to you
now, but understand clearly that I find him
not guilty.” 5 Then J esus came out wearing the
crown of thorns and the purple robe. And Pi
late said, “Look, here is the man!”
6 When they saw him, the leading priests
and Temple guards began shouting, “Crucify
him! Crucify him!”
“Take him yourselves and crucify him,” Pi
late said. “I find him not guilty.”
7 The Jewish leaders replied, “By our law he
ought to die because he called himself the Son
of God.”
8 When Pi
late heard this, he was more
frightened than ever. 9 He took Jesus back
into the headquarters* again and asked him,
“Where are you from?” But Jesus gave no answer. 10 “Why don’t you talk to me?” Pilate
demanded. “Don’t you realize that I have the
power to release you or crucify you?”
11 Then
Jesus said, “You would have no
power over me at all unless it were given to
you from above. So the one who handed me
over to you has the greater sin.”
12 Then Pilate tried to release him, but the
Jewish leaders shouted, “If you release this
man, you are no ‘friend of Caesar.’* Anyone
who declares himself a king is a rebel against
Caesar.”
13 When they said this, Pilate brought J
esus
out to them again. Then Pilate sat down on
the judgment seat on the platform that is
called the Stone Pavement (in Hebrew, Gab
batha). 14 It was now about noon on the day of
preparation for the Passover. And Pilate said
to the people,* “Look, here is your king!”
15 “Away with him,” they yelled. “Away with
him! Crucify him!”
“What? Crucify your king?” Pilate asked.
“We have no king but Caesar,” the leading
priests shouted back.
16 Then Pilate turned J
esus over to them to
be crucified.
The Crucifixion
So they took Jesus away. 17 Carrying the cross
by himself, he went to the place called Place
of the Skull (in Hebrew, Golgotha). 18 There
they nailed him to the cross. Two others were
crucified with him, one on either side, with
Jesus between them. 19And Pilate posted a
sign on the cross that read, “Jesus of Naz
areth,* the King of the Jews.” 20 The place
where Jesus was crucified was near the city,
and the sign was written in Hebrew, Latin,
and Greek, so that many people could read it.
1 8:28 Greek to the Praetorium; also in 18:33. 18:32 See John 12:32-33. 19:9 Greek the Praetorium.
19:12 “Friend of Caesar”
is a technical term that refers to an ally of the emperor. 19:14 Greek Jewish people; also in 19:20. 19:19 Or Jesus the Nazarene.
