John 19:8-18

8 When Pilate heard this statement, ¹he was even more afraid.

9 ²He entered his headquarters again and said to Jesus, ³"Where are you from?" But ⁴Jesus gave him no answer.

10 So Pilate said to him, "You will not speak to me? Do you not know that I have authority to release you and authority to crucify you?"

11 Jesus answered him, ⁵"You would have no authority over me at all unless it had been given you from above. Therefore ⁶he who delivered me over to you ⁷has the greater sin."

12 From then on ⁸Pilate sought to release him, but the Jews cried out, "If you release this man, you are not Caesar's friend. ⁹Everyone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar."

13 So when Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus out and sat down on ¹⁰the judgment seat at a place called The Stone Pavement, and in Aramaic^[a] Gabbatha.

14 Now it was ¹¹the day of Preparation of the Passover. It was about the sixth hour.^[b] He said to the Jews, ¹²"Behold your King!"

15 They cried out, ¹³"Away with him, away with him, crucify him!" Pilate said to them, "Shall I crucify your King?" The chief priests answered, "We have no king but Caesar."

16 ¹⁴So he ¹⁵delivered him over to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus,

17 and ¹⁶he went out, ¹⁷bearing his own cross, to the place called The Place of a Skull, which in Aramaic is called Golgotha.

18 ¹⁸There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, and Jesus between them.