Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

Jesus is taken before the Roman authority

²⁸ Then they led Jesus from Caiaphas’ presence into the palace. It was now early morning and the Jews themselves did not go into the palace, for fear that they would be contaminated and would not be able to eat the Passover.

²⁹ So Pilate walked out to them and said, “What is the charge that you are bringing against this man?”

³⁰ “If he were not an evil-doer, we should not have handed him over to you,” they replied.

^31-32 To which Pilate retorted, “Then take him yourselves and judge him according to your law.” “We are not allowed to put a man to death,” replied the Jews (thus fulfilling Christ’s prophecy of the method of his own death).