John 18:31
Good News Translation
Pilate said to them, "Then you yourselves take him and try him according to your own law." They replied, "We are not allowed to put anyone to death." (

New Revised Standard Version
Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves and judge him according to your law.” The Jews replied, “We are not permitted to put anyone to death.”

Contemporary English Version
Pilate told them, "Take him and judge him by your own laws." The crowd replied, "We are not allowed to put anyone to death."

New American Bible
At this, Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves, and judge him according to your law.” The Jews answered him, “We do not have the right to execute anyone,”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Pilate therefore said to them: Take him you, and judge him according to your law. The Jews therefore said to him: It is not lawful for us to put any man to death.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Pilate therefore said to them: Take him you, and judge him according to your law. The Jews therefore said to him: It is not lawful for us to put any man to death.

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John 19:6,7 When the chief priests, therefore, and the servants had seen him, they cried out, saying: Crucify him, Crucify him. Pilate saith to them: Take him you, and crucify him: for I find no cause in him. . . .

Acts 25:18-20 Against whom, when the accusers stood up, they brought no accusation of this which I thought ill of: . . .

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John 19:15 But they cried out: Away with him: Away with him: Crucify him. Pilate saith to them: shall I crucify your king? The chief priests answered: We have no king but Caesar.

Genesis 49:10 The sceptre shall not be taken away from Juda, nor a ruler from his thigh, till he come that is to be sent, and he shall be the expectation of nations.

Ezekiel 21:26,27 Thus saith the Lord God: Remove the diadem, take off the crown: is it not this that hath exalted the low one, and brought down him that was high? . . .

Hosea 3:4,5 For the children of Israel shall sit many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without altar, and without ephod, and without theraphim. . . .

Context
Jesus Before Pilate
30They answered and said to him: If he were not a malefactor, we would not have delivered him up to thee. 31Pilate therefore said to them: Take him you, and judge him according to your law. The Jews therefore said to him: It is not lawful for us to put any man to death. 32That the word of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he said, signifying what death he should die.…
Cross References
John 18:30
They answered and said to him: If he were not a malefactor, we would not have delivered him up to thee.

John 18:32
That the word of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he said, signifying what death he should die.

John 18:30
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