8. Now when Pilate heard this statement, he became even more afraid,
9. and went back into the praetorium and said to Jesus, “Where are you from?” Jesus did not answer him.
10. So Pilate said to him, “Do you not speak to me? Do you not know that I have power to release you and I have power to crucify you?”
11. Jesus answered [him], “You would have no power over me if it had not been given to you from above. For this reason the one who handed me over to you has the greater sin.”
12. Consequently, Pilate tried to release him; but the Jews cried out, “If you release him, you are not a Friend of Caesar. Everyone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar.”
13. When Pilate heard these words he brought Jesus out and seated him on the judge’s bench in the place called Stone Pavement, in Hebrew, Gabbatha.
14. It was preparation day for Passover, and it was about noon. And he said to the Jews, “Behold, your king!”
15. They cried out, “Take him away, take him away! Crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your king?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar.”
16. Then he handed him over to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus,
17. and carrying the cross himself he went out to what is called the Place of the Skull, in Hebrew, Golgotha.
18. There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, with Jesus in the middle.
19. Pilate also had an inscription written and put on the cross. It read, “Jesus the Nazorean, the King of the Jews.”
20. Now many of the Jews read this inscription, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek.
21. So the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Do not write ‘The King of the Jews,’ but that he said, ‘I am the King of the Jews.’”
22. Pilate answered, “What I have written, I have written.”