Judges and officers shall you make in all your gates, which the LORD your God gives you, throughout your tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.

And when he was accused of the chief priests and elders, he answered nothing.

Then said Pilate unto him, Hear you not how many things they witness against you?

But the chief priests and elders persuaded the multitude that they should ask for Barabbas, and destroy Jesus.

Likewise also the chief priests mocking him, with the scribes and elders, saying,

He saved others; himself he cannot save. If he be the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him.

Now the next day, that followed the day of the preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came together unto Pilate,

Saying, Sir, we remember that this deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again.

And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this fellow perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying that he himself is Christ a King.

The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord, and against his Christ.

For of a truth against your holy child Jesus, whom you have anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together,

But in my adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:

With hypocritical mockers at feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.

And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.

And they clothed him with purple, and platted a crown of thorns, and put it about his head,

And they struck him on the head with a reed, and did spit upon him, and bowing their knees worshiped him.

Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his lords, his wives, and his concubines, might drink from them.

They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of bronze, of iron, of wood, and of stone.