So when Pilate saw that nothing was being gained, but rather that a disturbance was starting, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, *I am innocent of the blood of this righteous person. You see to it.*
Pilate therefore said to them, *Take him yourselves, and judge him according to your law.* Therefore the Judeans said to him, *It is not lawful for us to put anyone to death,*
For if I have done wrong, and have committed anything worthy of death, I don't refuse to die; but if none of those things is true that they accuse me of, no one can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar!*