Luke 23:2-25

²and began to accuse him, saying, 'This one we found perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying himself to be Christ a king.'

³And Pilate questioned him, saying, 'Thou art the king of the Jews?' and he answering him, said, 'Thou dost say it.'

⁴And Pilate said unto the chief priests, and the multitude, 'I find no fault in this man;'

⁵and they were the more urgent, saying — 'He doth stir up the people, teaching throughout the whole of Judea — having begun from Galilee — unto this place.'

⁶And Pilate having heard of Galilee, questioned if the man is a Galilean,

⁷and having known that he is from the jurisdiction of Herod, he sent him back unto Herod, he being also in Jerusalem in those days.

⁸And Herod having seen Jesus did rejoice exceedingly, for he was wishing for a long time to see him, because of hearing many things about him, and he was hoping some sign to see done by him,

⁹and was questioning him in many words, and he answered him nothing.

¹⁰And the chief priests and the scribes stood vehemently accusing him,

¹¹and Herod with his soldiers having set him at nought, and having mocked, having put around him gorgeous apparel, did send him back to Pilate,

¹²and both Pilate and Herod became friends on that day with one another, for they were before at enmity between themselves.

¹³And Pilate having called together the chief priests, and the rulers, and the people,

¹⁴said unto them, 'Ye brought to me this man as perverting the people, and lo, I before you having examined, found in this man no fault in those things ye bring forward against him;

¹⁵no, nor yet Herod, for I sent you back unto him, and lo, nothing worthy of death is having been done by him;

¹⁶having chastised, therefore, I will release him,'

¹⁷for it was necessary for him to release to them one at every feast,

¹⁸and they cried out — the whole multitude — saying, 'Away with this one, and release to us Barabbas,'

¹⁹who had been, because of a certain sedition made in the city, and murder, cast into prison.

²⁰Pilate again then — wishing to release Jesus — called to them,

²¹but they were calling out, saying, 'Crucify, crucify him.'

²²And he a third time said unto them, 'Why, what evil did he? no cause of death did I find in him; having chastised him, then, I will release him.'

²³And they were pressing with loud voices asking him to be crucified, and their voices, and those of the chief priests, were prevailing,

²⁴and Pilate gave judgment for their request being done,

²⁵and he released him who because of sedition and murder hath been cast into the prison, whom they were asking, and Jesus he gave up to their will.