John 19:12

The Passion Translation

From then on Pilate tried to find a way out of the situation and to set him free, but the Jewish authorities shouted him down: “If you let this man go, you’re no friend of Caesar! Anyone who declares himself a king is an enemy of the emperor!”

Cross References

Jeremiah 38:19

King Zedekiah then said to me, “I’m afraid of our own people who have already defected to the Babylonians. They might give me into their hands; then they will torture me!”

Matthew 22:17

So tell us, then, what you think. Is it proper for us Jews to pay taxes to Caesar or not?”

John 19:22

Pilate responded, “What I have written will remain!”