27. Again Peter said “No” — and at once a cock crowed.
28. Early in the morning Jesus was taken from Caiaphas' house to the governor's palace. The Jewish authorities did not go inside the palace, for they wanted to keep themselves ritually clean, in order to be able to eat the Passover meal.
29. So Pilate went outside to them and asked, “What do you accuse this man of?”
30. Their answer was, “We would not have brought him to you if he had not committed a crime.”
31. Pilate said to them, “Then you yourselves take him and try him according to your own law.”They replied, “We are not allowed to put anyone to death.”
32. (This happened in order to make the words of Jesus come true, the words he used when he indicated the kind of death he would die.)
33. Pilate went back into the palace and called Jesus. “Are you the King of the Jews?” he asked him.