Immediately in the morning the chief priests, with the elders, scribes, and the whole council, held a consultation, bound Jesus, carried him away, and delivered him up to Pilate.
Pilate asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?”
He answered, “So you say.”
The chief priests accused him of many things.
Pilate again asked him, “Have you no answer?
See how many things they testify against you!”
But Jesus made no further answer, so that Pilate marveled.
Now at the feast he used to release to them one prisoner, whomever they asked of him.