Jesus answered,
You could have no power at all against me, except it were given you from above: therefore he that delivered me unto you has the greater sin.
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Irenaeus of Lyons
AD 202
Thus did He in like manner speak to Pilate: "Thou shouldest have no power at all against Me, unless it were given thee from above; "
