Now at the feast he used to release for them one prisoner whom they asked. And Pilate again asked him, ‘Have you no answer to make? See how many charges they bring against you.’ But Jesus made no further answer, so that Pilate wondered. And Pilate asked him, ‘Are you the King of the Jews?’ And he answered him, ‘You have said so.’ And the chief priests accused him of many things. “And as soon as it was morning the chief priests, with the elders and scribes, and the whole council held a consultation and they bound Jesus and led him away and delivered him to Pilate. Mark briefly recounts this episode in his Gospel, Mk 15: 1-15: Pilate, however, made no charges against Jesus and sent him to Herod Antipas, the tetrarch of Judas, who in turn, made no charges and sent him again to Pilate. For what reason? His accusers wanted to assure that the death execution was to be handed to Jesus by Pilate. This time, however, he was cunningly presented by his accusers as a self-appointed king against the Roman rule, and not as a blasphemer, as previously condemned by the Sanhedrin. However, since permission for such execution to take place, Jesus was brought to the governing Roman authority, Pontius Pilate. Out of hatred and pride, they wanted to put him to death. The chief priests and the scribes of the Sanhedrin found Jesus “guilty” of blasphemy.