1
The accusers say Yahushua threatened the House by speaking of its destruction and restoration in three days. Pilatos distinguishes this saying from a capital crime.
2
Pilatos privately urges the kohenim and elders not to pursue death over healing, Shabbat controversies, or disputed words concerning the House.
3
They answer that the deeper accusation is blasphemy and royal claim. Pilatos tells them to judge religious accusations according to their own law, but they demand Roman execution.
4
Pilatos observes that many in the crowd are grieving and do not desire Yahushua's death. The leaders insist that he must die because he called himself Son of Elohim and king.