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30 They answered him, “If he weren’t a criminal, we wouldn’t have handed him over to you.”

31 Pilate told them, “You take him and try him according to your Law.”

The Jewish leaders[a] told him, “It is not legal for us to put anyone to death.” 32 This was to fulfill what Jesus had said[b] when he indicated the kind of death he was to die.

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Footnotes

  1. John 18:31 I.e. Judean leaders; lit. The Jews
  2. John 18:32 Lit. the word of Jesus that he said