Pontius

and they bound him, and led him away, and delivered him up to Pontius Pilate, the governor.

Then Pilate said to him, “Don’t you hear how many things they testify against you?”

When therefore they were gathered together, Pilate said to them, “Whom do you want me to release to you? Barabbas, or Yeshua, who is called Messiah?”

Pilate said to them, “What then shall I do to Yeshua, who is called Messiah?” They all said to him, “Let him be crucified!”

So when Pilate saw that nothing was being gained, but rather that a disturbance was starting, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, “I am innocent of the blood of this righteous person. You see to it.”

This man went to Pilate, and asked for Yeshua’s body. Then Pilate commanded the body to be given up.

Now on the next day, which was the day after the Preparation Day, the chief priests and the Pharisees were gathered together to Pilate,

Pilate said to them, “You have a guard. Go, make it as secure as you can.”

Immediately in the morning the chief priests, with the elders and scribes, and the whole council, held a consultation, and bound Yeshua, and carried him away, and delivered him up to Pilate.

Pilate asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” He answered, “So you say.”

Pilate again asked him, “Have you no answer? See how many things they testify against you!”

But Yeshua made no further answer, so that Pilate marveled.

Pilate answered them, saying, “Do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?”

Pilate again asked them, “What then should I do to him whom you call the King of the Jews?”

Pilate said to them, “Why, what evil has he done?” But they cried out exceedingly, “Crucify him!”

Pilate, wishing to please the multitude, released Barabbas to them, and handed over Yeshua, when he had flogged him, to be crucified.

Joseph of Arimathaea, a prominent council member who also himself was looking for the Kingdom of God, came. He boldly went in to Pilate, and asked for Yeshua’s body.

Pilate marveled if he were already dead; and summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he had been dead long.

Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,

Now there were some present at the same time who told him about the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.

The whole company of them rose up and brought him before Pilate.

Pilate asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” He answered him, “So you say.”

Pilate said to the chief priests and the multitudes, “I find no basis for a charge against this man.”

But when Pilate heard Galilee mentioned, he asked if the man was a Galilean.

Herod with his soldiers humiliated him and mocked him. Dressing him in luxurious clothing, they sent him back to Pilate.