Pontius

Then they put him in chains, led him away and handed him over to Pilate the governor.

Then Pilate said to him, "Don't you hear all these charges they are making against you?"

So when a crowd had gathered, Pilate said to them, "Whom do you want me to set free for you? Bar-Abba? or Yeshua, called `the Messiah'?"

Pilate said to them, "Then what should I do with Yeshua, called `the Messiah'?" They all said, "Put him to death on the stake! Put him to death on the stake!"

When Pilate saw that he was accomplishing nothing, but rather that a riot was starting, he took water, washed his hands in front of the crowd, and said, "My hands are clean of this man's blood; it's your responsibility."

He approached Pilate and asked for Yeshua's body, and Pilate ordered it to be given to him.

Next day, after the preparation, the head cohanim and the P'rushim went together to Pilate

Pilate said to them, "You may have your guard. Go and make the grave as secure as you know how."

As soon as it was morning, the head cohanim held a council meeting with the elders, the Torah-teachers and the whole Sanhedrin. Then they put Yeshua in chains, led him away and handed him over to Pilate.

Pilate put this question to him: "Are you the King of the Jews?" He answered him, "The words are yours."

and Pilate again inquired of him, "Aren't you going to answer? Look how many charges they are making against you!"

But Yeshua made no further response, to Pilate's amazement.

e asked them, "Do you want me to set free for you the `King of the Jews'?"

Pilate again said to them, "Then what should I do with the man you call the King of the Jews?"

He asked, "Why? What crime has he committed?" But they only shouted louder, "Put him to death on the stake!"

So Pilate, wishing to satisfy the mob, set Bar-Abba free for them; but he had Yeshua whipped and then handed him over to be executed on the stake.

Yosef of Ramatayim, a prominent member of the Sanhedrin who himself was also looking forward to the Kingdom of God, went boldly to Pilate and asked for Yeshua's body.

Pilate was surprised to hear that he was already dead, so he summoned the officer and asked him if he had been dead awhile.

In the fifteenth year of Emperor Tiberius' rule; when Pontius Pilate was governor of Y'hudah, Herod ruler of the Galil, his brother Philip ruler of Iturea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias ruler of Abilene,

Just then, some people came to tell Yeshua about the men from the Galil whom Pilate had slaughtered even while they were slaughtering animals for sacrifice.

With that, the whole Sanhedrin got up and brought Yeshua before Pilate,

Pilate asked him, “Are you the king of the Jews?” And he answered him, “The words are yours.”

Pilate said to the head cohanim and the crowds, “I find no ground for a charge against this man.”

On hearing this, Pilate asked if the man was from the Galil;

Herod and his soldiers treated Yeshua with contempt and made fun of him. Then, dressing him in an elegant robe, they sent him back to Pilate.