6. When the high priests and police saw him, they shouted in a frenzy, “Crucify! Crucify!”Pilate told them, “You take him. You crucify him. I find nothing wrong with him.”
7. The Jews answered, “We have a law, and by that law he must die because he claimed to be the Son of God.”
10. Pilate said, “You won’t talk? Don’t you know that I have the authority to pardon you, and the authority to—crucify you?”
11. Jesus said, “You haven’t a shred of authority over me except what has been given you from heaven. That’s why the one who betrayed me to you has committed a far greater fault.”
12. At this, Pilate tried his best to pardon him, but the Jews shouted him down: “If you pardon this man, you’re no friend of Caesar’s. Anyone setting himself up as ‘king’ defies Caesar.”