»Take him yourselves,« said Pilate, »and judge him by your Law.«»We have no power,« replied the Jews, »to put any man to death.«
»If the man were not a criminal,« they replied, »we would not have handed him over to you.«
They said this that the words might be fulfilled in which Jesus predicted the kind of death He was to die.
This caused a storm of outcries, »Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!«»Am I to crucify your king?« Pilate asked. »We have no king, except Caesar,« answered the High Priests.