Quotes About Justice

“What is truth?” Pilate asked. And having said this, he went out again to the Jews and told them, “I find no basis for a charge against Him.

But it is your custom that I release to you one prisoner at the Passover. So then, do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?”

“Not this man,” they shouted, “but Barabbas!” (Now Barabbas was an insurrectionist.)

Then Pilate took Jesus and had Him flogged.

Once again Pilate came out and said to the Jews, “Look, I am bringing Him out to you to let you know that I find no basis for a charge against Him.”

As soon as the chief priests and officers saw Him, they shouted, “Crucify Him! Crucify Him!” “You take Him and crucify Him,” Pilate replied, “for I find no basis for a charge against Him.”

Jesus answered, “You would have no authority over Me if it were not given to you from above. Therefore the one who handed Me over to you is guilty of greater sin.”

Then Pilate handed Jesus over to be crucified, and the soldiers took Him away.

until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.Ӓ

You rejected the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a murderer be released to you.

They brought them in and made them stand before the Sanhedrin, where the high priest interrogated them.

where they presented false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking against this holy place and against the law.

Then the high priest asked Stephen, “Are these charges true?”

ëBut I will punish the nation that enslaves them,í God said, ëand afterward they will come forth and worship Me in this place.í

And when he saw one of them being mistreated, Moses went to his defense and avenged him by striking down the Egyptian who was oppressing him.

The next day he came upon two Israelites who were fighting, and he tried to reconcile them, saying, ëMen, you are brothers. Why are you mistreating each other?í

Do you want to kill me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?í

They dragged him out of the city and began to stone him. Meanwhile the witnesses laid their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.

In His humiliation He was deprived of justice. Who can recount His descendants? For His life was removed from the earth.”

Then Peter began to speak: “I now truly understand that God does not show favoritism,

After Herod had searched for him unsuccessfully, he examined the guards and ordered that they be executed. Then he went down from Judea to Caesarea and spent some time there.

And though they found no ground for a death sentence, they asked Pilate to have Him executed.

When the girlís owners saw that their hope of making money was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them before the authorities in the marketplace.

They brought them to the magistrates and said, “These men are Jews and are throwing our city into turmoil