Pilate replied, 'I am not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and the chief priests have handed you over to me. What have you done?' — Pilate's rhetorical question asserts his outsider status: he disclaims any personal knowledge of Jewish messianic expectations, locating the charge with the Jewish leadership. "Your own nation" shifts responsibility: the Jews have made the accusation, making Pilate merely the enforcer of their will. His question "What have you done?" seeks concrete wrongdoing.

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