John 19:5-14

⁵Then Jesus came out with the crown of thorns and the purple robe. And Pilate said to them, Here is the man!

⁶So when the chief priests and the police saw him they gave a loud cry, To the cross! to the cross! Pilate said to them, Take him yourselves and put him on the cross: I see no crime in him.

⁷And the Jews made answer, We have a law, and by that law it is right for him to be put to death because he said he was the Son of God.

⁸When this saying came to Pilate's ears his fear became greater;

⁹And he went again into the Praetorium and said to Jesus, Where do you come from? But Jesus gave him no answer.

¹⁰Then Pilate said to him, You say nothing to me? is it not clear to you that I have power to let you go free and power to put you to death on the cross?

¹¹Jesus gave this answer: You would have no power at all over me if it was not given to you by God; so that he who gave me up to you has the greater sin.

¹²Hearing this, Pilate had a desire to let him go free, but the Jews said in a loud voice, If you let this man go, you are not Caesar's friend: everyone who makes himself a king goes against Caesar.

¹³So when these words came to Pilate's ear, he took Jesus out, seating himself in the judge's seat in a place named in Hebrew, Gabbatha, or the Stone Floor.

¹⁴(It was the day when they made ready for the Passover; and it was about the sixth hour.) And he said to the Jews, There is your King!