Even though they found no cause for a sentence of death, they asked Pilate to have him killed.
While he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent word to him, “Have nothing to do with that innocent man, for today I have suffered a great deal because of a dream about him.”
Pilate asked him, “What is truth?” After he had said this, he went out to the Jews again and told them, “I find no case against him.
Pilate went out again and said to them, “Look, I am bringing him out to you to let you know that I find no case against him.”