Bible Verses About Judge

Nowe at the feast, the gouernour was wont to deliuer vnto the people a prisoner whom they would.

And they had then a notable prisoner, called Barabbas.

When they were then gathered together, Pilate said vnto the, Whether will ye that I let loose vnto you Barabbas, or Iesus which is called Christ?

(For he knewe well, that for enuie they had deliuered him.

Also when he was set downe vpon the iudgement seate, his wife sent to him, saying, Haue thou nothing to do with that iust man: for I haue suffered many things this day in a dreame by reason of him.)

But the chiefe Priestes and the Elders had persuaded the people that they shoulde aske Barabbas, and should destroy Iesus.

Then the gouernour answered, and said vnto them, Whether of the twaine will ye that I let loose vnto you? And they said, Barabbas.

Pilate said vnto them, What shall I do then with Iesus, which is called Christ? They all said to him, Let him be crucified.

Then saide the gouernour, But what euill hath he done? Then they cryed the more, saying, Let him be crucified.

When Pilate saw that he auailed nothing, but that more tumult was made, he tooke water and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this iust man: looke you to it.

Then answered all the people, and saide, His bloud be on vs, and on our children.

Thus let he Barabbas loose vnto them, and scourged Iesus, and deliuered him to be crucified.

So when the Gouernour had read it, hee asked of what prouince he was: and when he vnderstoode that he was of Cilicia,

I will heare thee, said he, when thine accusers also are come, and commanded him to bee kept in Herods iudgement hall.

For if I haue done wrong, or committed any thing worthie of death, I refuse not to die: but if there be none of these things whereof they accuse me, no man, to pleasure them, can deliuer me to them: I appeale vnto Caesar.

Then when Festus had spoken with the Council, hee answered, Hast thou appealed vnto Caesar? vnto Caesar shalt thou goe.