Leo Tolstoy

“ But what shall be done with Jesus?
They again cried: Crucify him in the Roman way, crucify him!
And Pilate tried to persuade them, and said: Why are you so hard on him? He has done nothing to deserve death and has done you no harm. I will let him go, for I find no fault in him.
The chief priests and their servants cried: Crucify him! Crucify him!
And Pilate said to them: Then take him and crucify him yourselves, for I see no fault in him.
The chief priests answered: We ask only what our law demands. By our law he ought to die for making himself out to be a son of God. ”

“ He was the same Caiaphas who had planned how to destroy Jesus, saying that it was good for the people that Jesus should be killed, and that if this was not done it would be worse for the whole people. So Jesus was taken to the palace where this high priest lived.
When Jesus came there one of his pupils, Peter, followed him from afar to see where they would take him, and when Jesus was led into the court of the high priest, Peter went in also to see how the matter would end. And a girl in the yard saw Peter and said to him: You also were with Jesus of Galilee! ”

“ Having reviled him, they led him bound to Pontius Pilate and took him to the hall of judgment.
Pilate the governor came out to them and asked: Of what do you accuse this man?
They said: He is an evil doer, so we have brought him to you. ”