Luke 13:11
1 Now on the same occasion
there were some present who reported to Him about the Galileans whose blood
Pilate had 1mixed with their sacrifices.
[ 1 I.e. shed along with ]
John 18:38
38 Pilate said to Him,
"What is truth?" And when he had said this, he went out again to the
Jews and said to them, "I find no guilt in Him."
John 19:6-10
6 So when the chief priests and the officers saw Him, they cried out
saying, "Crucify, crucify!" Pilate said to them, "Take
Him yourselves and crucify Him, for I find no guilt in Him."
7 The
Jews answered him, "We have a law, and by that law He ought to die because
He made Himself out to be the Son of God."
8 Therefore
when Pilate heard this statement, he was even more afraid;
9 and
he entered into the 1Praetorium
again and said to Jesus, "Where are You from?" But Jesus gave him
no answer. [1
I.e. governor's
official residence]
10 So Pilate
said to Him, "You do not speak to me? Do You not know that I have authority
to release You, and I have authority to crucify You?"
Luke 23:14-15
14 And said
to them, "You brought this man to me as one who incites the people to rebellion,
and behold, having examined Him before you, I have found no guilt in this man
regarding the charges which you make against Him.
15 No, nor
has Herod, for he sent Him back to us; and behold, nothing deserving death has
been done by Him."
Luke 23:22
22 And he said to them the third time,
"Why, what evil has this man done? I have found in Him no guilt demanding death;
therefore I will punish Him and release Him."
Esther 3:6
6 But he disdained
to lay hands on Mordecai alone, for they had told him who the people of Mordecai
were; therefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews, the people of Mordecai,
who were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus.
John 19:19-22
19 Pilate
also wrote an inscription and put it on the cross. It was written, "JESUS
THE NAZARENE, THE KING OF THE JEWS."
20 Therefore
many of the Jews read this inscription, for the place where Jesus was crucified
was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, Latin and in Greek.
21 So the
chief priests of the Jews were saying to Pilate, "Do not write, 'The King
of the Jews'; but that He said, 'I am King of the Jews.' "
22 Pilate
answered, "What I have written I have written."
1Although this event is otherwise unattested, Josephus recorded several similar events that had been instigated or perpetrated by Pilate (Jewish Wars "Pilate Occasions Disturbances" 2.9.2-4 [2.169-177]; Jewish Antiquities "Sedition of the Jews against Pontius Pilate" 18.3.1-2 [18.55-62]; "How the Samaritans made a Tumult and Pilate Destroyed many of Them" 18.4.1 [18.85-87] ), so we believe it's reasonable even for secular historians to consider this event in Luke as authentic.
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