Quotes About Pilate

“You have a guard,” Pilate said. “Go, make the tomb as secure as you know how.”

Now it was Pilateís custom at the feast to release to the people a prisoner of their choosing.

So the crowd went up and began asking Pilate to keep his custom.

“Do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?” Pilate asked.

So Pilate asked them again, “What then do you want me to do with the One you call the King of the Jews?”

“Why?” asked Pilate. “What evil has He done?” But they shouted all the louder, “Crucify Him!”

Joseph of Arimathea, a prominent Council member who himself was waiting for the kingdom of God, boldly went to Pilate to ask for the body of Jesus.

Pilate was surprised to hear that Jesus was already dead, so he summoned the centurion to ask if this was so.

When Pilate had confirmed it with the centurion, he granted the body to Joseph.

In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, while Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, Herod tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,

At that time some of those present told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.

Then the whole council rose and led Jesus away to Pilate.

So Pilate asked Him, “Are You the King of the Jews?” “You have said so,” Jesus replied.

When Pilate heard this, he asked if the man was a Galilean.

Then Pilate called together the chief priests, the rulers, and the people,

Wanting to release Jesus, Pilate addressed them again,

So Pilate sentenced that their demand be met.

He went to Pilate to ask for the body of Jesus.

So Pilate went out to them and asked, “What accusation are you bringing against this man?”

Pilate went back into the Praetorium, summoned Jesus, and asked Him, “Are You the King of the Jews?”

“Then You are a king!” Pilate said. “You say that I am a king,” Jesus answered. “For this reason I was born and have come into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to My voice.”

When Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, Pilate said to them, “Here is the man!”

From then on, Pilate tried to release Him, but the Jews kept shouting, “If you release this man, you are no friend of Caesar. Anyone who declares himself a king is defying Caesar.”

When Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus out and sat on the judgment seat at a place called the Stone Pavement, which in Hebrew is Gabbatha.