10. Pilate said, “You refuse to speak to me? Don’t you know that I have power to set you free and power to have you killed on a cross?”
11. Jesus answered, “The only power you have over me is the power given to you by God. The man who gave me to you is guilty of a greater sin.”
12. After this, Pilate tried to let Jesus go free. But the Jews cried out, “Anyone who makes himself king is against Caesar. If you let this man go free, you are not Caesar’s friend.”
13. Pilate heard what the Jews were saying. So he brought Jesus out to the place called The Stone Pavement. (In the Jewish language the name is Gabbatha.) Pilate sat down on the judge’s seat there.
14. It was about six o’clock in the morning on Preparation Day of Passover week. Pilate said to the Jews, “Here is your king!”
15. They shouted, “Take him away! Take him away! Kill him on a cross!”Pilate asked them, “Do you want me to kill your king on a cross?”The leading priests answered, “The only king we have is Caesar!”
16. So Pilate gave Jesus to them to be killed on a cross.The soldiers took charge of Jesus.
17. Carrying his own cross, Jesus went out to a place called The Place of the Skull. (In the Jewish language this place is called Golgotha.)
18. There they nailed Jesus to the cross. They also put two other men on crosses, one on each side of Jesus with Jesus in the middle.