They led Jesus therefore from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. It was early, and they themselves didn’t enter into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the Passover.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
John 18:28 in context
John 18:25–31
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Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They said therefore to him, “You aren’t also one of his disciples, are you?”
He denied it and said, “I am not.”
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One of the servants of the high priest, being a relative of him whose ear Peter had cut off, said, “Didn’t I see you in the garden with him?”
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Peter therefore denied it again, and immediately the rooster crowed.
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They led Jesus therefore from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. It was early, and they themselves didn’t enter into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the Passover.
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Pilate therefore went out to them and said, “What accusation do you bring against this man?”
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They answered him, “If this man weren’t an evildoer, we wouldn’t have delivered him up to you.”
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Pilate therefore said to them, “Take him yourselves, and judge him according to your law.”
Therefore the Jews said to him, “It is illegal for us to put anyone to death,”
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