Jesus Handed Over to Pilate

27 When daybreak came, all the chief priests and the elders of the people plotted against Jesus to put him to death.^{(A) 2} After tying him up, they led him away and handed him over to Pilate,^[a] the governor.^(B)

Judas Hangs Himself

³ Then Judas, his betrayer, seeing that Jesus had been condemned, was full of remorse and returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders.^{(C) 4} “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood,” he said.

“What’s that to us?” they said. “See to it yourself!” ⁵ So he threw the silver into the temple^(D) and departed. Then he went and hanged himself.

⁶ The chief priests took the silver and said, “It’s not permitted^(E) to put it into the temple treasury, since it is blood money.” ⁷ They conferred together and bought the potter’s field with it as a burial place for foreigners. ⁸ Therefore that field has been called “Field of Blood” to this day. ⁹ Then what was spoken through the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled: They took^[b] the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him whose price was set by the Israelites, ¹⁰ and they gave^[c] them for the potter’s field, as the Lord directed me.^[d](F)

Jesus Faces the Governor

¹¹ Now Jesus stood before the governor.^(G) “Are you the king of the Jews?” the governor asked him.

Jesus answered, “You say so.”^{(H) 12} While he was being accused by the chief priests and elders, he didn’t answer.^(I)

¹³ Then Pilate said to him, “Don’t you hear how much they are testifying against you?” ¹⁴ But he didn’t answer him on even one charge, so that the governor was quite amazed.^(J)

Jesus Faces Pilate

15 As^(A) soon as it was morning, having held a meeting with the elders,^(B) scribes,^(C) and the whole Sanhedrin, the chief priests^(D) tied Jesus up, led him away, and handed him over to Pilate.^(E)

² So Pilate asked him, “Are you the king^(F) of the Jews?”^(G)

He answered him, “You say so.”

³ And the chief priests accused him of many things. ⁴ Pilate^(H) questioned him again, “Aren’t you going to answer? Look how many things they are accusing you of!” ⁵ But Jesus still did not answer, and so Pilate was amazed.

Jesus Faces the Sanhedrin

⁶⁶ When daylight came,^(A) the elders^[a] of the people, both the chief priests and the scribes,^(B) convened and brought him before their Sanhedrin.^{(C) 67} They said,^(D) “If you are the Messiah, tell us.”

But he said to them, “If I do tell you, you will not believe. ⁶⁸ And if I ask you, you will not answer. ⁶⁹ But from now on, the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of the power of God.”^(E)

⁷⁰ They all asked, “Are you, then, the Son of God?” ^(F)

And he said to them, “You say that I am.”^(G)

⁷¹ “Why do we need any more testimony,” they said, “since we’ve heard it ourselves from his mouth?”

Jesus Faces Pilate

23 Then^(H) their whole assembly rose up and brought him before Pilate. ² They began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man misleading our nation, opposing payment of taxes^(I) to Caesar, and saying that he himself is the Messiah, a king.”

³ So Pilate asked him,^(J) “Are you the king of the Jews?” ^(K)

He answered him, “You say so.”^[b]

⁴ Pilate then told the chief priests and the crowds, “I find no grounds^(L) for charging this man.”

⁵ But they kept insisting, “He stirs up the people,^(M) teaching throughout all Judea, from Galilee^(N) where he started even to here.”

Jesus Faces Herod Antipas

⁶ When Pilate^(O) heard this,^[c] he asked if the man was a Galilean. ⁷ Finding that he was under Herod’s jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod,^(P) who was also in Jerusalem during those days. ⁸ Herod was very glad to see Jesus; for a long time he had wanted to see him because he had heard about him and was hoping to see some miracle^[d] performed by him. ⁹ So he kept asking him questions, but Jesus did not answer him.^{(Q) 10} The chief priests and the scribes stood by, vehemently accusing him. ¹¹ Then Herod, with his soldiers, treated him with contempt, mocked^(R) him, dressed him in bright clothing,^(S) and sent him back to Pilate. ¹² That very day Herod and Pilate became friends.^[e](T) Previously, they had been enemies.

Jesus before Pilate

²⁸ Then^(A) they led Jesus from Caiaphas to the governor’s headquarters.^(B) It was early morning. They did not enter the headquarters themselves; otherwise they would be defiled and unable to eat the Passover.

²⁹ So Pilate^(C) came out to them and said, “What charge^(D) do you bring against this man?”

³⁰ They answered him, “If this man weren’t a criminal,^[a] we wouldn’t have handed him over to you.”

³¹ Pilate told them, “You take him and judge him according to your law.”

“It’s not legal for us to put anyone to death,” the Jews declared. ³² They said this so that Jesus’s words might be fulfilled indicating what kind of death he was going to die.^(E)

³³ Then Pilate went back into the headquarters, summoned Jesus, and said to him, “Are you the king of the Jews?” ^(F)

³⁴ Jesus answered, “Are you asking this on your own, or have others told you about me?”

³⁵ “I’m not a Jew, am I?” Pilate replied. “Your own nation and the chief priests handed you over to me. What have you done?”

³⁶ “My kingdom^(G) is not of this world,” said Jesus. “If my kingdom were of this world,^(H) my servants^(I) would fight, so that I wouldn’t be handed over to the Jews. But as it is,^[b] my kingdom is not from here.”^(J)

³⁷ “You are a king then?” Pilate asked.

“You say that I’m a king,” Jesus replied. “I was born for this, and I have come into the world^(K) for this: to testify^(L) to the truth.^(M) Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”

³⁸ “What is truth?” said Pilate.

Jesus or Barabbas

After he had said this, he went out to the Jews again and told them, “I find no grounds^(N) for charging him.