祭司长和差役看见他,就喊着说,钉他十字架,钉他十字架。彼拉多说,你们自己把他钉十字架吧。我查不出他有什么罪来。When the chief priests therefore and officers saw him, they cried out, saying, Crucify him, crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Take ye him, and crucify him: for I find no fault in him.
彼拉多说,你不对我说话吗。你岂不知我有权柄释放你,也有权柄把你钉十字架吗。Then saith Pilate unto him, Speakest thou not unto me? knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee, and have power to release thee?
耶稣回答说,若不是从上头赐给你的,你就毫无权柄辨我。所以把我交给你的那人,罪更重了。Jesus answered, Thou couldest have no power at all against me, except it were given thee from above: therefore he that delivered me unto thee hath the greater sin.
从此彼拉多想要释放耶稣。无奈犹太人喊着说,你若释放这个人,就不是凯撒的忠臣。(原文作朋友)凡以自己为王的,就是背叛凯撒了。And from thenceforth Pilate sought to release him: but the Jews cried out, saying, If thou let this man go, thou art not Caesar's friend: whosoever maketh himself a king speaketh against Caesar.
彼拉多听见这话,就带耶稣出来,到了一个地方,名叫铺华石处,希伯来话叫厄巴大,就在那里坐堂。When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he brought Jesus forth, and sat down in the judgment seat in a place that is called the Pavement, but in the Hebrew, Gabbatha.