28. Then they brought Jesus from Caiaphas to the praetorium. It was morning. And they themselves did not enter the praetorium, in order not to be defiled so that they could eat the Passover.
29. So Pilate came out to them and said, “What charge do you bring [against] this man?”
30. They answered and said to him, “If he were not a criminal, we would not have handed him over to you.”
31. At this, Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves, and judge him according to your law.” The Jews answered him, “We do not have the right to execute anyone,”
32. in order that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled that he said indicating the kind of death he would die.
33. So Pilate went back into the praetorium and summoned Jesus and said to him, “Are you the King of the Jews?”
34. Jesus answered, “Do you say this on your own or have others told you about me?”