John 18:30-32

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

³⁰ They answered, ‘If this man were not a criminal, we would not have handed him over to you.’ ³¹ Pilate said to them, ‘Take him yourselves and judge him according to your law.’ The Jews replied, ‘We are not permitted to put anyone to death.’ ³² (This was to fulfil what Jesus had said when he indicated the kind of death he was to die.)