4. Then Pilate went out again, and said to them, “Behold, I bring him out to you, that you may know that I find no basis for a charge against him.”
5. Yeshua therefore came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple garment. Pilate said to them, “Behold, the man!”
6. When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him, they shouted, saying, “Crucify! Crucify!”Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves, and crucify him, for I find no basis for a charge against him.”
7. The Judeans answered him, “We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.”
8. When therefore Pilate heard this saying, he was more afraid.
9. He entered into the Praetorium again, and said to Yeshua, “Where are you from?” But Yeshua gave him no answer.
10. Pilate therefore said to him, “Aren’t you speaking to me? Don’t you know that I have power to release you and have power to crucify you?”
11. Yeshua answered, “You would have no power at all against me, unless it were given to you from above. Therefore he who delivered me to you has greater sin.”
12. At this, Pilate was seeking to release him, but the Judeans cried out, saying, “If you release this man, you aren’t Caesar’s friend! Everyone who makes himself a king speaks against Caesar!”
13. When Pilate therefore heard these words, he brought Yeshua out and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called “The Pavement”, but in Hebrew, “Gabbatha.”
14. Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passover, at about the sixth hour. He said to the Judeans, “Behold, your King!”
15. They cried out, “Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!”Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your King?”The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar!”