New Testament in a Year

23 And having risen, the whole multitude of them did lead him to Pilate,

² and began to accuse him, saying, `This one we found perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying himself to be Christ a king.'

³ And Pilate questioned him, saying, `Thou art the king of the Jews?' and he answering him, said, `Thou dost say [it].'

⁴ And Pilate said unto the chief priests, and the multitude, `I find no fault in this man;'

⁵ and they were the more urgent, saying -- `He doth stir up the people, teaching throughout the whole of Judea -- having begun from Galilee -- unto this place.'

⁶ And Pilate having heard of Galilee, questioned if the man is a Galilean,

⁷ and having known that he is from the jurisdiction of Herod, he sent him back unto Herod, he being also in Jerusalem in those days.

⁸ And Herod having seen Jesus did rejoice exceedingly, for he was wishing for a long [time] to see him, because of hearing many things about him, and he was hoping some sign to see done by him,

⁹ and was questioning him in many words, and he answered him nothing.

¹⁰ And the chief priests and the scribes stood vehemently accusing him,

¹¹ and Herod with his soldiers having set him at nought, and having mocked, having put around him gorgeous apparel, did send him back to Pilate,

¹² and both Pilate and Herod became friends on that day with one another, for they were before at enmity between themselves.

¹³ And Pilate having called together the chief priests, and the rulers, and the people,

¹⁴ said unto them, `Ye brought to me this man as perverting the people, and lo, I before you having examined, found in this man no fault in those things ye bring forward against him;

¹⁵ no, nor yet Herod, for I sent you back unto him, and lo, nothing worthy of death is having been done by him;

¹⁶ having chastised, therefore, I will release him,'

¹⁷ for it was necessary for him to release to them one at every feast,

¹⁸ and they cried out -- the whole multitude -- saying, `Away with this one, and release to us Barabbas,'

¹⁹ who had been, because of a certain sedition made in the city, and murder, cast into prison.

²⁰ Pilate again then -- wishing to release Jesus -- called to them,

²¹ but they were calling out, saying, `Crucify, crucify him.'

²² And he a third time said unto them, `Why, what evil did he? no cause of death did I find in him; having chastised him, then, I will release [him].'

²³ And they were pressing with loud voices asking him to be crucified, and their voices, and those of the chief priests, were prevailing,

²⁴ and Pilate gave judgment for their request being done,

²⁵ and he released him who because of sedition and murder hath been cast into the prison, whom they were asking, and Jesus he gave up to their will.