But if you do not believe what Moses wrote, how will you believe my words?”

They heaped insults on him, saying, “You are his disciple! We are disciples of Moses!

They brought him first to Annas, for he was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.

You yourselves can testify that I said, ‘I am not the Christ,’ but rather, ‘I have been sent before him.’

Then one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said, “You know nothing at all!

(Now he did not say this on his own, but because he was high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the Jewish nation,

Then, because it was the day of preparation, so that the bodies should not stay on the crosses on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was an especially important one), the Jewish leaders asked Pilate to have the victims’ legs broken and the bodies taken down.