John 19:1-10

1 So Pilate took Jesus and had him whipped.

2 The soldiers, having braided a crown from thorns, set it on his head, threw a purple robe over him,

3 and approached him with, "Hail, King of the Jews!" Then they greeted him with slaps in the face.

4 Pilate went back out again and said to them, "I present him to you, but I want you to know that I do not find him guilty of any crime."

5 Just then Jesus came out wearing the thorn crown and purple robe. Pilate announced, "Here he is: the Man."

6 When the high priests and police saw him, they shouted in a frenzy, "Crucify! Crucify!" Pilate told them, "You take him. You crucify him. I find nothing wrong with him."

7 The Jews answered, "We have a law, and by that law he must die because he claimed to be the Son of God."

8 When Pilate heard this, he became even more scared.

9 He went back into the palace and said to Jesus, "Where did you come from?" Jesus gave no answer.

10 Pilate said, "You won't talk? Don't you know that I have the authority to pardon you, and the authority to - crucify you?"