Be it known to the king, that the Jews who came up from you are come to us to Yerushalayim; they are building the rebellious and the bad city, and have finished the walls, and repaired the foundations.
He spoke before his brothers and the army of Shomron, and said, What are these feeble Jews doing? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, seeing they are burned?
They led Yeshua therefore from Kayafa into the Praetorium. It was early, and they themselves didn't enter into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the Pesach.
Yeshua answered, *My Kingdom is not of this world. If my Kingdom were of this world, then my servants would fight, that I wouldn't be delivered to the Judeans. But now my Kingdom is not from here.*
Yeshua answered, *You would have no power at all against me, unless it were given to you from above. Therefore he who delivered me to you has greater sin.*
When therefore the chief Kohanim and the officers saw him, they shouted, saying, *Crucify! Crucify!* Pilate said to them, *Take him yourselves, and crucify him, for I find no basis for a charge against him.*
The God of Avraham, Yitzchak, and Ya`akov, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Servant Yeshua, whom you delivered up, and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had determined to release him.