² After tying him up, they led him away and handed him over to Pilate,^[a] the governor.^(A)

⁴ Pilate then told the chief priests and the crowds, “I find no grounds^(A) for charging this man.”

¹⁵ They shouted, “Take him away! Take him away! Crucify him!”

Pilate said to them, “Should I crucify your king?”

“We have no king but Caesar!” the chief priests answered.

²⁸ Though they found no grounds for the death sentence, they asked Pilate to have him killed.^(A)