You shall make for yourself judges and officers in your cities, which the Lord your God gives you in [your] tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment;

And while He was being accused by the chief priests and elders, He answered nothing.

Then Pilate said to Him, "Do You not hear how many things they testify against You?"

But the chief priests and elders persuaded the crowds that they should ask for Barabbas, but they should destroy Jesus.

Likewise the chief priests also, mocking [Him] with the scribes and elders, and Pharisees, said,

He saved others; Himself He cannot save. If He is the King of Israel, let Him now come down from the cross, and we will believe on Him.

On the next day, which is after the Preparation [Day], the chief priests and Pharisees were gathered together to Pilate,

saying, "Sir, we remember that that deceiver said while He was still alive, 'After three days I will rise.'

And they began to accuse Him, saying, "We found this [Man] perverting the nation, and forbidding to pay taxes to Caesar, saying that He Himself is Christ, a King."

The kings of the earth took their stand, and the rulers were assembled together against the LORD and against His Christ.'

"For truly they were assembled against Your holy Servant Jesus, whom You anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel,

Yet they rejoiced against me, and plagues were plentifully brought against me, and I knew [it] not; they were scattered, but repented not.

They tempted me, they sneered at me most contemptuously, they gnashed their teeth upon me.

[They are] sons of fools and vile men, [whose] name and glory [are] quenched from off the earth.

But now I am their music, and they have me for a byword.

And they clothed Him with purple; and they twisted a crown of thorns, and they put it around His head,

And they were striking His head with a reed and were spitting on Him; and bowing the knee, they [mockingly] worshipped Him.

And Belshazzar, drinking, gave orders as he tasted the wine that they should bring the gold and silver vessels, which Nebuchadnezzar his father had brought forth from the temple in Jerusalem; that the king, and his nobles, and his mistresses, and his concubines, should drink out of them.

They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of iron, and of wood, and of stone.