Lexicon :: Strong's G4091 - pilatos

After tying him up, they led him away and handed him over to Pilate,[fn] the governor.

Then Pilate said to him, “Don’t you hear how much they are testifying against you? ”

So when they had gathered together, Pilate said to them, “Who is it you want me to release for you ​— ​Barabbas, or Jesus who is called Christ? ”

Pilate asked them, “What should I do then with Jesus, who is called Christ? ”

They all answered, “Crucify him! ”

When Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere, but that a riot was starting instead, he took some water, washed his hands in front of the crowd, and said, “I am innocent of this man’s blood.[fn] See to it yourselves! ”

He approached Pilate and asked for Jesus’s body. Then Pilate ordered that it[fn] be released.

The next day, which followed the preparation day, the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered before Pilate

“Take[fn] guards,” Pilate told them. “Go and make it as secure as you know how.”

As soon as it was morning, having held a meeting with the elders, scribes, and the whole Sanhedrin, the chief priests tied Jesus up, led him away, and handed him over to Pilate.

Pilate questioned him again, “Aren’t you going to answer? Look how many things they are accusing you of! ”

Pilate answered them, “Do you want me to release the king of the Jews for you? ”

Pilate asked them again, “Then what do you want me to do with the one you call the king of the Jews? ”

Pilate said to them, “Why? What has he done wrong? ”

But they shouted all the more, “Crucify him! ”

Joseph of Arimathea, a prominent member of the Sanhedrin who was himself looking forward to the kingdom of God, came and boldly went to Pilate and asked for Jesus’s body.

In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, while Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, Herod was tetrarch[fn] of Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Iturea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,

At that time, some people came and reported to him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.

Then their whole assembly rose up and brought him before Pilate.

So Pilate asked him, “Are you the king of the Jews? ”

He answered him, “You say so.”[fn]

When Pilate heard this,[fn] he asked if the man was a Galilean.

Then Herod, with his soldiers, treated him with contempt, mocked him, dressed him in bright clothing, and sent him back to Pilate.

Wanting to release Jesus, Pilate addressed them again,

So Pilate decided to grant their demand

He approached Pilate and asked for Jesus’s body.

So Pilate came out to them and said, “What charge do you bring against this man? ”

Pilate told them, “You take him and judge him according to your law.”

“It’s not legal for us to put anyone to death,” the Jews declared.

Then Pilate went back into the headquarters, summoned Jesus, and said to him, “Are you the king of the Jews? ”

“I’m not a Jew, am I? ” Pilate replied. “Your own nation and the chief priests handed you over to me. What have you done? ”

“You are a king then? ” Pilate asked.

“You say that I’m a king,” Jesus replied. “I was born for this, and I have come into the world for this: to testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”

Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged.

Pilate went outside again and said to them, “Look, I’m bringing him out to you to let you know I find no grounds for charging him.”

When the chief priests and the temple servants[fn] saw him, they shouted, “Crucify! Crucify! ”

Pilate responded, “Take him and crucify him yourselves, since I find no grounds for charging him.”

When Pilate heard this statement, he was more afraid than ever.

So Pilate said to him, “Do you refuse to speak to me? Don’t you know that I have the authority to release you and the authority to crucify you? ”

From that moment Pilate kept trying[fn] to release him. But the Jews shouted, “If you release this man, you are not Caesar’s friend. Anyone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar! ”

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.

Pilate also had a sign made and put on the cross. It said: Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.

So the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Don’t write, ‘The king of the Jews,’ but that he said, ‘I am the king of the Jews.’ ”

Since it was the preparation day, the Jews did not want the bodies to remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a special[fn] day). They requested that Pilate have the men’s legs broken and that their bodies be taken away.

After this, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus ​— ​but secretly because of his fear of the Jews ​— ​asked Pilate that he might remove Jesus’s body. Pilate gave him permission; so he came and took his body away.

“The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our ancestors, has glorified his servant Jesus, whom you handed over and denied before Pilate, though he had decided to release him.