1. The whole group rose up and took Jesus before Pilate,
2. where they began to accuse him: “We caught this man misleading our people, telling them not to pay taxes to the Emperor and claiming that he himself is the Messiah, a king.”
3. Pilate asked him, “Are you the king of the Jews?” “So you say,” answered Jesus.
4. Then Pilate said to the chief priests and the crowds, “I find no reason to condemn this man.”
5. But they insisted even more strongly, “With his teaching he is starting a riot among the people all through Judea. He began in Galilee and now has come here.”
6. When Pilate heard this, he asked, “Is this man a Galilean?”
7. When he learnt that Jesus was from the region ruled by Herod, he sent him to Herod, who was also in Jerusalem at that time.
44-45. It was about twelve o'clock when the sun stopped shining and darkness covered the whole country until three o'clock; and the curtain hanging in the Temple was torn in two.
50-51. There was a man named Joseph from Arimathea, a town in Judea. He was a good and honourable man, who was waiting for the coming of the Kingdom of God. Although he was a member of the Council, he had not agreed with their decision and action.