If we let Him alone like this, everyone will believe into Him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and nation.

Now it was Caiaphas who gave counsel to the Jews that it was expedient that one man should die for the people.

From then on Pilate sought to release Him, but the Jews cried out, saying, If you let this Man go, you are not Caesar's friend. Everyone making himself a king speaks against Caesar.

And He said to them, Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day,

And why not say (as we are slanderously reported and as some affirm that we say), Let us do evil that good may come? Their condemnation is just.