He also [even] tried to desecrate and defile the temple, but we laid hands on him and would have sentenced him by our Law,
Pilate said to them, Take Him yourselves and judge and sentence and punish Him according to your [own] law. The Jews answered, It is not lawful for us to put anyone to death.
For you have brought these men here, who are [guilty of] neither temple robberies nor blasphemous speech about our goddess.
And as they were shouting and tossing and waving their garments and throwing dust into the air,
And neither in the temple nor in the synagogues nor in the city did they find me disputing with anybody or bringing together a seditious crowd.
But the commandant Lysias came and took him from us with violence and force,