John 18:29-32

J.B. Phillips New Testament

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).