23. Yeshua answered him, “If I have spoken wrongly, give evidence of the wrong; but if rightly, why hit Me?”
24. Then Annas sent Him, still tied up, to Caiaphas, the kohen gadol .
25. Now Simon Peter was standing outside and warming himself. So they said to him, “Aren’t you one of His disciples too?” He denied it and said, “No, I’m not!”
26. One of the servants of the kohen gadol , a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, said, “Didn’t I see you in the garden with Him?”
27. Again Peter denied it, and immediately a rooster crowed.
28. Then they led Yeshua from Caiaphas to the Praetorium. It was early. They themselves did not enter the Praetorium, so they would not become unclean but might eat the Passover.
29. Therefore Pilate came out to them and said, “What charge do you bring against this man?”
30. They answered, “If He weren’t an evildoer, we wouldn’t have handed Him over to you.”
31. Then Pilate said to them, “Take Him yourselves, and judge Him by your Torah!” The Judean leaders responded, “We are not authorized to put anyone to death.”
32. This happened so that the word Yeshua spoke would be fulfilled, signifying what kind of death He was about to die.
33. So Pilate went back into the Praetorium, called for Yeshua, and asked Him, “Are you the King of the Jews?”
34. “Are you saying this on your own,” Yeshua answered, “or did others tell you about Me?”
35. Pilate answered, “I’m not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and ruling kohanim handed You over to me! What have You done?”
36. Yeshua answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, then My servants would be fighting so that I wouldn’t be handed over to the Judean leaders. But as it is, My kingdom is not from here.”
37. So Pilate said to Him, “Are you a king, then?” Yeshua answered, “You say that I am a king. For this reason I was born, and for this reason I came into the world, so that I might testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice.”
38. Pilate said to Him, “What is truth?” After he said this, he went out again to the Judean leaders. He said to them, “I find no case against Him.
39. But it’s your custom that I release someone for you at Passover. So do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?”
40. They shouted back, “Not this One, but Bar-Abba!” Now Bar-Abba was a revolutionary.