John 18:28-32

New Century Version

Jesus Is Brought Before Pilate

²⁸ Early in the morning they led Jesus from Caiaphas’s house to the Roman governor’s palace. They would not go inside the palace, because they did not want to make themselves unclean;^[a] they wanted to eat the Passover meal. ²⁹ So Pilate went outside to them and asked, “What charges do you bring against this man?”

³⁰ They answered, “If he were not a criminal, we wouldn’t have brought him to you.”

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

“But we are not allowed to put anyone to death,” the Jews answered. ³² (This happened so that what Jesus said about how he would die would come true.)