But I found that he had done nothing deserving death. And as he himself appealed to the emperor, I decided to go ahead and send him.
I found that he was being accused about questions of their law, but charged with nothing deserving death or imprisonment.
If then I am a wrongdoer and have committed anything for which I deserve to die, I do not seek to escape death. But if there is nothing to their charges against me, no one can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar.” Then Festus, when he had conferred with his council, answered, “To Caesar you have appealed; to Caesar you shall go.”
Then a great clamor arose, and some of the scribes of the Pharisees' party stood up and contended sharply, “We find nothing wrong in this man. What if a spirit or an angel spoke to him?”
Then Pilate said to the chief priests and the crowds, “I find no guilt in this man.”
And when they had withdrawn, they said to one another, “This man is doing nothing to deserve death or imprisonment.”
Pilate said to him, “What is truth?” After he had said this, he went back outside to the Jews and told them, “I find no guilt in him.
and said to them, “You brought me this man as one who was misleading the people. And after examining him before you, behold, I did not find this man guilty of any of your charges against him.
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