who also the temple did try to profane, whom also we took, and according to our law did wish to judge,
Pilate, therefore, said to them, `Take ye him -- ye -- and according to your law judge him;' the Jews, therefore, said to him, `It is not lawful to us to put any one to death;'
`For ye brought these men, who are neither temple-robbers nor speaking evil of your goddess;
And they crying out and casting up their garments, and throwing dust into the air,
and neither in the temple did they find me reasoning with any one, or making a dissension of the multitude, nor in the synagogues, nor in the city;
and Lysias the chief captain having come near, with much violence, out of our hands did take away,