John 18:27-32

²⁷Peter again denied it. Immediately a rooster crowed, as Jesus had said would happen.

²⁸Then the Jewish leaders SYN led Jesus from the home of Caiaphas to the headquarters of Pilate, the Roman governor. It was before dawn. Pilate was a non-Jew, and they thought that if they entered his headquarters, they would become unacceptable to God {God would reject them}, and as a result they would not be able to eat the food during the Passover celebration. Because of that, they did not want to enter Pilate's headquarters.

²⁹So Pilate came out to talk to them. He said, “What law do you say that this man has disobeyed?”

³⁰They knew that Jesus had not disobeyed any Roman law, so they did not want to answer him. Instead, they said, “If this man were not a criminal, we would not have brought him to you!”

³¹Then Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves, and judge him according to your own laws!” Then the Jewish leaders SYN said, “ No! We want him executed, but we want you Romans to execute him, because we Jews have no right to execute anyone!”

³²The Romans executed people by nailing them to a cross. So, as a result of what the Jewish leaders said, it was fulfilled { the Romans would fulfill} what Jesus had said previously about the way he was going to die.