⁶ So when the chief priests and the ^(A)officers saw Him, they shouted, saying, “Crucify, crucify!” Pilate *said to them, “Take Him yourselves and crucify Him; for ^(B)I find no grounds for charges in ^[a]His case!” ⁷ The Jews answered him, “^(C)We have a law, and by that law He ought to die, because He ^(D)made Himself out to be the Son of God!”

⁸ Therefore when Pilate heard this statement, he was even more afraid;