When the chief priests and the officers saw him, they cried out, “Crucify him, crucify him!” Pilate said to them, (A)“Take him yourselves and crucify him, for (B)I find no guilt in him.” The Jews[a] answered him, “We have a law, and (C)according to that law he ought to die because (D)he has made himself the Son of God.” When Pilate heard this statement, (E)he was even more afraid. (F)He entered his headquarters again and said to Jesus, (G)“Where are you from?” But (H)Jesus gave him no answer. 10 So Pilate said to him, “You will not speak to me? Do you not know that I have authority to release you and authority to crucify you?” 11 Jesus answered him, (I)“You would have no authority over me at all unless it had been given you from above. Therefore (J)he who delivered me over to you (K)has the greater sin.”

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Footnotes

  1. John 19:7 Greek Ioudaioi probably refers here to Jewish religious leaders, and others under their influence, in that time; also verses 12, 14, 31, 38

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