Jesus before Pilate
| Mark 15:1 And straightway in the morning the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole council, and bound Jesus, and carried him away, and delivered him to Pilate. | Matt 27:1 When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death: 2 And when they had bound him, they led him away, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor. | Luke 23:1 And the whole multitude of them arose, and led him unto Pilate. | John 18:28 Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the passover. |
Matt 27:3 Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, 4 Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that. 5 And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself [1].
Matt 27:6 And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said, It is not lawful for to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood. 7 And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in. 8 Wherefore that field was called, The field of blood, unto this day.
Matt 27:9 Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet [2], saying, And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him that was valued, whom they of the children of Israel did value; 10 And gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord appointed me. [3]
John 18:29 Pilate then went out unto them, and said, What accusation bring ye against this man?
| Luke 23:2 And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this fellow perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar [4] , saying that he himself is Christ a King. | John 18:30 They answered and said unto him, If he were not a malefactor, we would not have delivered him up unto thee. |
John 18:31 Then said Pilate unto them, Take ye him, and judge him according to your law. The Jews therefore said unto him, It is not lawful for us to put any man to death: 32 That the saying of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spake, signifying what death he should die.
| Mark 15:2a And Pilate asked him, Art thou the King of the Jews? | Matt 27:11a And Jesus stood before the governor: and the governor asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews? | Luke 23:3a And Pilate asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews? | John 18:33 Then Pilate entered into the judgment hall again, and called Jesus, and said unto him, Art thou the King of the Jews? |
| Mark 15:2b And he answering said unto him, Thou sayest it. | Matt 27:11b And Jesus said unto him, Thou sayest. | Luke 23:3b And he answered him and said, Thou sayest it. | John 18:34 Jesus answered him, Sayest thou this thing of thyself, or did others tell it thee of me? |
| Mark 15:3a And the chief priests accused him of many things: | Matt 27:12a And when he was accused of the chief priests and elders, | John 18:35 [5] Pilate answered, Am I a Jew? Thine own nation and the chief priests have delivered thee unto me: what hast thou done? |
| Mark 15:3b but he answered nothing. | Matt 27:12b he answered nothing. | John 18:36 Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence. |
| Mark 15:4 And Pilate asked him again, saying, Answerest thou nothing? behold how many things they witness against thee. | Matt 27:13 Then said Pilate unto him, Hearest thou not how many things they witness against thee? | John 18:37a Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? |
| Mark 15:5 But Jesus yet answered nothing; so that Pilate marvelled. | Matt 27:14 And he answered him to never a word; insomuch that the governor marvelled greatly. | John 18:37b Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice. |
| John 18:38a Pilate saith unto him, What is truth? |
| Luke 23:4 Then said Pilate to the chief priests and to the people, I find no fault in this man. | John 18:38b And when he had said this, he went out again unto the Jews, and saith unto them, I find in him no fault at all. |
[1]This description of Judas' suicide is contradicted by Acts 1:10:18 Now this man [Judas] purchased a field with the reward of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out.
[2]Zechariah 11:12 And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver. 13 And the Lord said unto me, Cast it unto the potter: a goodly price that I was prised at of them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the Lord. This passage is part of a parable in which a shepherd is rejected by his sheep. The shepherd is given the price of a slave for his service (see Exodus 21:32) and donates it to the temple.
[3]Compare Matthew 27:5-10 with this passage from The Acts of the Apostles, chapter one: 19 And it was known unto all the dwellers at Jerusalem; insomuch as that field is called in their proper tongue, Aceldama, that is to say, The field of blood. 20 For it is written in the book of Psalms, Let his habitation be desolate, and let no man dwell therein: and his bishoprick let another take.
[4]Luke 20:25 makes clear that this is a lie.
[5]John's account of Jesus' questioning from this point through 18:38 cannot be reconciled with the other gospels.
