Hasn’t Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps the law! Why do you want to kill me?”

The Jewish leaders replied, “We have a law, and according to our law he ought to die, because he claimed to be the Son of God!”

But this rabble who do not know the law are accursed!”

Pilate told them, “Take him yourselves and pass judgment on him according to your own law!” The Jewish leaders replied, “We cannot legally put anyone to death.”