30 They answered him, “If this man were not doing evil, we would not have delivered him over to you.” 31 Pilate said to them, (A)“Take him yourselves and judge him by your own law.” The Jews said to him, “It is not lawful for us to put anyone to death.” 32 (B)This was to fulfill the word that Jesus had spoken (C)to show by what kind of death he was going to die.

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30 “If he were not a criminal,” they replied, “we would not have handed him over to you.”

31 Pilate said, “Take him yourselves and judge him by your own law.”

“But we have no right to execute anyone,” they objected. 32 This took place to fulfill what Jesus had said about the kind of death he was going to die.(A)

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