You shall appoint judges and officers in all your gates, which Jehovah your God gives you, according to 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 witness against You?

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

Likewise the chief priests also, mocking with the scribes and elders, said,

He saved others; He has no power to save Himself. If He is the King of Israel, let Him now come down from the cross, and we will believe Him.

And on the next day, which followed the Day of Preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees gathered together to Pilate,

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

And they began to accuse Him, saying, We found this one perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying that He Himself is Christ, a King.

The kings of the earth took their stand, and the rulers themselves were gathered against the Lord and against His Christ.

For truly against Your holy Son Jesus, whom You anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together

But at my stumbling they gathered themselves together and rejoiced; and before I knew it the attackers gathered themselves against me; they tore at me and were not still;

with the hypocrites, mockers, for a cake, they gnashed at me with their teeth.

They were sons of fools, yea, sons without a name; they were scourged from the land.

And now I am their taunting song; yea, I am their byword.

And they clothed Him with purple; and they wove a crown of thorns, put it on Him,

And they struck Him on the head with a reed and spat on Him; and bending the knee, they bowed to Him.

While tasting the wine, Belshazzar commanded the golden and silver vessels brought, those his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple in Jerusalem, that the king and his nobles, his wives, and his concubines might drink from them.

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