PILATE
Taken from the HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION (C) 1978 by the New
York Bible Society, used by permission of Zondervan Bible Publishers.
MAT 27:1 Early in the morning, all the chief priests and the elders of the
people came to the decision to put Jesus to death.
2 They bound him, led him away and handed him over to Pilate, the
governor.
12 When he was accused by the chief priests and the elders, he gave no
answer.
13 Then Pilate asked him, "Don't you hear the testimony they are bringing
against you?"
14 But Jesus made no reply, not even to a single charge--to the great
amazement of the governor.
15 Now it was the governor's custom at the Feast to release a prisoner
chosen by the crowd.
16 At that time they had a notorious prisoner, called Barabbas.
17 So when the crowd had gathered, Pilate asked them, "Which one do you
want me to release to you: Barabbas, or Jesus who is called Christ?"
18 For he knew it was out of envy that they had handed Jesus over to him.
19 While Pilate was sitting on the judge's seat, his wife sent him this
message: "Don't have anything to do with that innocent man, for I have
suffered a great deal today in a dream because of him."
20 But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowd to ask for
Barabbas and to have Jesus executed.
21 "Which of the two do you want me to release to you?" asked the
governor. "Barabbas," they answered.
22 "What shall I do, then, with Jesus who is called Christ?" Pilate asked.
They all answered, "Crucify him!"
23 "Why? What crime has he committed?" asked Pilate. But they shouted all
the louder, "Crucify him!"
24 When Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere, but that instead an uproar
was starting, he took water and washed his hands in front of the crowd. "I
am innocent of this man's blood," he said. "It is your responsibility!"
25 All the people answered, "Let his blood be on us and on our children!"
26 Then he released Barabbas to them. But he had Jesus flogged, and handed
him over to be crucified.
27 Then the governor's soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium and
gathered the whole company of soldiers around him.
57 As evening approached, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named
Joseph, who had himself become a disciple of Jesus.
58 Going to Pilate, he asked for Jesus' body, and Pilate ordered that it
be given to him.
59 Joseph took the body, wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,
60 and placed it in his own new tomb that he had cut out of the rock. He
rolled a big stone in front of the entrance to the tomb and went away.
61 Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were sitting there opposite the tomb.
62 The next day, the one after Preparation Day, the chief priests and the
Pharisees went to Pilate.
63 "Sir," they said, "we remember that while he was still alive that
deceiver said, 'After three days I will rise again.'
64 So give the order for the tomb to be made secure until the third day.
Otherwise, his disciples may come and steal the body and tell the people
that he has been raised from the dead. This last deception will be worse
than the first."
65 "Take a guard," Pilate answered. "Go, make the tomb as secure as you
know how."
66 So they went and made the tomb secure by putting a seal on the stone
and posting the guard.
MAR 15:1 Very early in the morning, the chief priests, with the elders,
the teachers of the law and the whole Sanhedrin, reached a decision. They
bound Jesus, led him away and handed him over to Pilate.
2 "Are you the king of the Jews?" asked Pilate. "Yes, it is as you say,"
Jesus replied.
3 The chief priests accused him of many things.
4 So again Pilate asked him, "Aren't you going to answer? See how many
things they are accusing you of."
5 But Jesus still made no reply, and Pilate was amazed.
6 Now it was the custom at the Feast to release a prisoner whom the people
requested.
7 A man called Barabbas was in prison with the insurrectionists who had
committed murder in the uprising.
8 The crowd came up and asked Pilate to do for them what he usually did.
9 "Do you want me to release to you the king of the Jews?" asked Pilate,
10 knowing it was out of envy that the chief priests had handed Jesus over
to him.
11 But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to have Pilate release
Barabbas instead.
12 "What shall I do, then, with the one you call the king of the Jews?"
Pilate asked them.
13 "Crucify him!" they shouted.
14 "Why? What crime has he committed?" asked Pilate. But they shouted all
the louder, "Crucify him!"
15 Wanting to satisfy the crowd, Pilate released Barabbas to them. He had
Jesus flogged, and handed him over to be crucified.
43 Joseph of Arimathea, a prominent member of the Council, who was himself
waiting for the kingdom of God, went boldly to Pilate and asked for Jesus'
body.
44 Pilate was surprised to hear that he was already dead. Summoning the
centurion, he asked him if Jesus had already died.
45 When he learned from the centurion that it was so, he gave the body to
Joseph.
LUK 3:1 In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar--when
Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, Herod tetrarch of Galilee, his
brother Philip tetrarch of Iturea and Traconitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of
Abilene--
13:1 Now there were some present at that time who told Jesus about the
Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.
23:1 Then the whole assembly rose and led him off to Pilate.
2 And they began to accuse him, saying, "We have found this man subverting
our nation. He opposes payment of taxes to Caesar and claims to be Christ,
a king."
3 So Pilate asked Jesus, "Are you the king of the Jews?" "Yes, it is as
you say," Jesus replied.
4 Then Pilate announced to the chief priests and the crowd, "I find no
basis for a charge against this man."
5 But they insisted, "He stirs up the people all over Judea by his
teaching. He started in Galilee and has come all the way here."
6 On hearing this, Pilate asked if the man was a Galilean.
11 Then Herod and his soldiers ridiculed and mocked him. Dressing him in
an elegant robe, they sent him back to Pilate.
12 That day Herod and Pilate became friends--before this they had been
enemies.
13 Pilate called together the chief priests, the rulers and the people,
14 and said to them, "You brought me this man as one who was inciting the
people to rebellion. I have examined him in your presence and have found no
basis for your charges against him.
15 Neither has Herod, for he sent him back to us; as you can see, he has
done nothing to deserve death.
16 Therefore, I will punish him and then release him."
17
18 With one voice they cried out, "Away with this man! Release Barabbas to
us!"
19 (Barabbas had been thrown into prison for an insurrection in the city,
and for murder.)
20 Wanting to release Jesus, Pilate appealed to them again.
21 But they kept shouting, "Crucify him! Crucify him!"
22 For the third time he spoke to them: "Why? What crime has this man
committed? I have found in him no grounds for the death penalty. Therefore
I will have him punished and then release him."
23 But with loud shouts they insistently demanded that he be crucified,
and their shouts prevailed.
24 So Pilate decided to grant their demand.
25 He released the man who had been thrown into prison for insurrection
and murder, the one they asked for, and surrendered Jesus to their will.
50 Now there was a man named Joseph, a member of the Council, a good and
upright man,
51 who had not consented to their decision and action. He came from the
Judean town of Arimathea and he was waiting for the kingdom of God.
52 Going to Pilate, he asked for Jesus' body.
JOH 18:28 Then the Jews led Jesus from Caiaphas to the palace of the Roman
governor. By now it was early morning, and to avoid ceremonial uncleanness
the Jews did not enter the palace; they wanted to be able to eat the
Passover.
29 So Pilate came out to them and asked, "What charges are you bringing
against this man?"
30 "If he were not a criminal," they replied, "we would not have handed
him over to you."
31 Pilate said, "Take him yourselves and judge him by your own law." "But
we have no right to execute anyone," the Jews objected.
32 This happened so that the words Jesus had spoken indicating the kind of
death he was going to die would be fulfilled.
33 Pilate then went back inside the palace, summoned Jesus and asked him,
"Are you the king of the Jews?"
34 "Is that your own idea," Jesus asked, "or did others talk to you about
me?"
35 "Am I a Jew?" Pilate replied. "It was your people and your chief
priests who handed you over to me. What is it you have done?"
36 Jesus said, "My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants
would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from
another place."
37 "You are a king, then!" said Pilate. Jesus answered, "You are right in
saying I am a king. In fact, for this reason I was born, and for this I
came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth
listens to me."
38 "What is truth?" Pilate asked. With this he went out again to the Jews
and said, "I find no basis for a charge against him.
39 But it is your custom for me to release to you one prisoner at the time
of the Passover. Do you want me to release 'the king of the Jews'?"
40 They shouted back, "No, not him! Give us Barabbas!" Now Barabbas had
taken part in a rebellion.
19:1 Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged.
2 The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head.
They clothed him in a purple robe
3 and went up to him again and again, saying, "Hail, king of the Jews!"
And they struck him in the face.
4 Once more Pilate came out and said to the Jews, "Look, I am bringing him
out to you to let you know that I find no basis for a charge against him."
5 When Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe,
Pilate said to them, "Here is the man!"
6 As soon as the chief priests and their officials saw him, they shouted,
"Crucify! Crucify!" But Pilate answered, "You take him and crucify him. As
for me, I find no basis for a charge against him."
7 The Jews insisted, "We have a law, and according to that law he must
die, because he claimed to be the Son of God."
8 When Pilate heard this, he was even more afraid,
9 and he went back inside the palace. "Where do you come from?" he asked
Jesus, but Jesus gave him no answer.
10 "Do you refuse to speak to me?" Pilate said. "Don't you realize I have
power either to free you or to crucify you?"
11 Jesus answered, "You would have no power over me if it were not given
to you from above. Therefore the one who handed me over to you is guilty of
a greater sin."
12 From then on, Pilate tried to set Jesus free, but the Jews kept
shouting, "If you let this man go, you are no friend of Caesar. Anyone who
claims to be a king opposes Caesar."
13 When Pilate heard this, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the
judge's seat at a place known as the Stone Pavement (which in Aramaic is
Gabbatha).
14 It was the day of Preparation of Passover Week, about the sixth hour.
"Here is your king," Pilate said to the Jews.
15 But they shouted, "Take him away! Take him away! Crucify him!" "Shall I
crucify your king?" Pilate asked. "We have no king but Caesar," the chief
priests answered.
16 Finally Pilate handed him over to them to be crucified. So the soldiers
took charge of Jesus.
17 Carrying his own cross, he went out to the place of the Skull (which in
Aramaic is called Golgotha).
18 Here they crucified him, and with him two others--one on each side and
Jesus in the middle.
19 Pilate had a notice prepared and fastened to the cross. It read: JESUS
OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS.
20 Many of the Jews read this sign, for the place where Jesus was
crucified was near the city, and the sign was written in Aramaic, Latin and
Greek.
21 The chief priests of the Jews protested to Pilate, "Do not write 'The
King of the Jews,' but that this man claimed to be king of the Jews."
22 Pilate answered, "What I have written, I have written."
30 When he had received the drink, Jesus said, "It is finished." With
that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.
31 Now it was the day of Preparation, and the next day was to be a special
Sabbath. Because the Jews did not want the bodies left on the crosses
during the Sabbath, they asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the
bodies taken down.
32 The soldiers therefore came and broke the legs of the first man who had
been crucified with Jesus, and then those of the other.
38 Later, Joseph of Arimathea asked Pilate for the body of Jesus. Now
Joseph was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly because he feared the Jews.
With Pilate's permission, he came and took the body away.
ACT 3:13 The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has
glorified his servant Jesus. You handed him over to be killed, and you
disowned him before Pilate, though he had decided to let him go.
4:27 Indeed Herod and Pontius Pilate met together with the Gentiles and
the people of Israel in this city to conspire against your holy servant
Jesus, whom you anointed.
13:28 Though they found no proper ground for a death sentence, they asked
Pilate to have him executed.
1TI 6:13 In the sight of God, who gives life to everything, and of Christ
Jesus, who while testifying before Pontius Pilate made the good confession,
I charge you
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