They found no legal reason to execute him, but they asked Pilate to have him killed anyway.
Just then, as Pilate was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent him this message: “Leave that innocent man alone. I suffered through a terrible nightmare about him last night.”
“What is truth?” Pilate asked. Then he went out again to the people and told them, “He is not guilty of any crime.
Pilate went outside again and said to the people, “I am going to bring him out to you now, but understand clearly that I find him not guilty.”