The Jewish leaders replied, “We have a law, and according to that law he must die, because he claimed to be the Son of God.”
After he said that, the Jewish leaders wanted even more to kill him, because he wasn’t just breaking the law for the Sabbath day. He was calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.
and he was appointed by the Holy Spirit to be the mighty Son of God when God raised him from the dead. This is Jesus Christ our Lord.
When the Roman commander who was standing there in front of Jesus saw how he died, he exclaimed, “Surely this man was the Son of God!”
When Pilate heard that, he was even more afraid.
and made this charge against him: “This man is trying to get people to worship God in ways that the law of Moses doesn’t allow.”