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

As soon as the chief priests and their officials saw him, they shouted, “Crucify! Crucify!”

But Pilate answered, “You take him and crucify him.(A) As for me, I find no basis for a charge against him.”(B)

The Jewish leaders insisted, “We have a law, and according to that law he must die,(C) because he claimed to be the Son of God.”(D)

When Pilate heard this, he was even more afraid, and he went back inside the palace.(E) “Where do you come from?” he asked Jesus, but Jesus gave him no answer.(F) 10 “Do you refuse to speak to me?” Pilate said. “Don’t you realize I have power either to free you or to crucify you?”

11 Jesus answered, “You would have no power over me if it were not given to you from above.(G) Therefore the one who handed me over to you(H) is guilty of a greater sin.”

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