1. Now when morning had come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against JESUS to put him to death:

2. and they bound him, and led him away, and delivered him up to Pontius Pilate, the governor.

3. Then Judas, who betrayed him, when he saw that JESUS was condemned, felt remorse, and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,

4. saying, "I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood."But they said, "What is that to us? You see to it."

5. He threw down the pieces of silver in the sanctuary, and departed. He went away and hanged himself.

6. The chief priests took the pieces of silver, and said, "It's not lawful to put them into the treasury, since it is the price of blood."

7. They took counsel, and bought the potter's field with them, to bury strangers in.

8. Therefore that field was called "The Field of Blood" to this day.

9. Then that which was spoken through

10. and they gave them for the potter's field,as the Lord commanded me."Zechariah 11:12-13; Jeremiah 19:1-13; 32:6-9

11. Now JESUS stood before the governor: and the governor asked him, saying, "Are you the King of the Jews?"JESUS said to him,"So you say."

12. When he was accused by the chief priests and elders, he answered nothing.

13. Then Pilate said to him, "Don't you hear how many things they testify against you?"

14. He gave him no answer, not even one word, so that the governor marveled greatly.

1. Immediately in the morning the chief priests, with the elders and scribes, and the whole council, held a consultation, and bound JESUS, and carried him away, and delivered him up to Pilate.

2. Pilate asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?"He answered,"So you say."

3. The chief priests accused him of many things.

4. Pilate again asked him, "Have you no answer? See how many things they testify against you!"

5. But JESUS made no further answer, so that Pilate marveled.

1. The whole company of them rose up and brought him before Pilate.

2. They began to accuse him, saying, "We found this man perverting the nation, forbidding paying taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king."

3. Pilate asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?"He answered him,"So you say."

4. Pilate said to the chief priests and the multitudes, "I find no basis for a charge against this man."

5. But they insisted, saying, "He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee even to this place."

28. They led JESUS therefore from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. It was early, and they themselves didn't enter into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the Passover.

29. Pilate therefore went out to them, and said, "What accusation do you bring against this man?"

30. They answered him, "If this man weren't an evildoer, we wouldn't have delivered him up to you."

31. Pilate therefore said to them, "Take him yourselves, and judge him according to your law."Therefore the Jews said to him, "It is not lawful for us to put anyone to death,"

32. that the word of JESUS might be fulfilled, which he spoke, signifying by what kind of death he should die.

33. Pilate therefore entered again into the Praetorium, called JESUS, and said to him, "Are you the King of the Jews?"

34. JESUS answered him,"Do you say this by yourself, or did others tell you about me?"

35. Pilate answered, "I'm not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and the chief priests delivered you to me. What have you done?"

36. JESUS answered,"My Kingdom is not of this world. If my Kingdom were of this world, then my servants would fight, that I wouldn't be delivered to the Jews. But now my Kingdom is not from here."

37. Pilate therefore said to him, "Are you a king then?"JESUS answered,"You say that I am a king. For this reason I have been born, and for this reason I have come into the world, that I should testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice."

38. Pilate said to him, "What is truth?"When he had said this, he went out again to the Jews, and said to them, "I find no basis for a charge against him.