John 18:31-33

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

³¹ Pilate said to them, ‘Take him yourselves and judge him according to your law.’ The Jews replied, ‘We are not permitted to put anyone to death.’ ³² (This was to fulfil what Jesus had said when he indicated the kind of death he was to die.)

³³ Then Pilate entered the headquarters^[a] again, summoned Jesus, and asked him, ‘Are you the King of the Jews?’