John 19:5-16

5Then Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, “Here is the man!”

6When the chief priests and the temple servants saw him, they shouted, “Crucify! Crucify!” Pilate responded, “Take him and crucify him yourselves, since I find no grounds for charging him.”

7“We have a law,” the Jews replied to him, “and according to that law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.”

8When Pilate heard this statement, he was more afraid than ever.

9He went back into the headquarters and asked Jesus, “Where are you from?” But Jesus did not give him an answer.

10So Pilate said to him, “Do you refuse to speak to me? Don’t you know that I have the authority to release you and the authority to crucify you?”

11“You would have no authority over me at all,” Jesus answered him, “if it hadn’t been given you from above. This is why the one who handed me over to you has the greater sin.”

12From that moment Pilate kept trying to release him. But the Jews shouted, “If you release this man, you are not Caesar’s friend. Anyone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar!”

13When Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus outside. He sat down on the judge’s seat in a place called the Stone Pavement (but in Aramaic, Gabbatha).

14It was the preparation day for the Passover, and it was about noon. Then he told the Jews, “Here is your king!”

15They shouted, “Take him away! Take him away! Crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Should I crucify your king?” “We have no king but Caesar!” the chief priests answered.

16Then he handed him over to be crucified. Then they took Jesus away.