Pilate said to him, *What is truth?* When he had said this, he went out again to the Judeans, and said to them, *I find no basis for a charge against him.
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.*
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.*