They retired to discuss the affair, and agreed that "this man has done nothing to deserve death or imprisonment."
where I found he was accused of matters relating to their Law but not impeached for any crime that deserved death or imprisonment.
Thus a loud clamour broke out. Some of the scribes who belonged to the Pharisaic party got up and contended, "We find nothing wrong about this man. What if some spirit or angel has spoken to him?"
They meant to release me after examination, as I was innocent of any crime that deserved death.
see that you have a clean conscience, so that, for all their slander of you, these libellers of your good Christian behaviour may be ashamed.
I could not find he had done anything that deserved death, so I decided to send him, on his own appeal, to the emperor.
And Pilate said to the high priests and the crowds, "I cannot find anything criminal about him."