Though they could charge him with nothing deserving death, yet they asked Pilate to have him killed.
Besides, while he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent word to him, “Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered much over him today in a dream.”
Pilate said to him, “What is truth?” After he had said this, he went out to the Jews again, and told them, “I find no crime in him.
Pilate went out again, and said to them, “See, I am bringing him out to you, that you may know that I find no crime in him.”