“And when they had bound him, they led him away, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor.”
And they bound him and led him away and delivered him over to Pilate the governor. The delivery of Jesus to Pilate: the bound Jesus is led to the Roman governor, since the Sanhedrin lacked the authority to execute the death sentence (John 18:31: it is not lawful for us to put anyone to death). The Roman execution that follows is both the Sanhedrin's legal workaround and the fulfillment of Jesus' prediction of death at Gentile hands (Matthew 20:19).
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