Luke 23:2

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Summary

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.

Perverting

Forbidding

General references

Luke 23:19

Luke 24:20

Bible References

Perverting

And they were more violent, saying, He excites the people, teaching in all Judea, beginning from Galilee even to this place.

and bringing them before the prefects said, These men, being Jews, greatly trouble the city,

but not finding them, they dragged Jason and some brothers to the rulers of the city, crying, These men who have turned the world upside down have come here also,

For finding this man a pestilence and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a chief of the sect of the Nazoraeans,

Forbidding

And they sent spies to watch him, who pretended to be righteous men, that they might take advantage of his speech, to deliver him to the power and authority of the procurator.

but that we may not offend them, go to the lake, and cast in a hook, and take the first fish that comes up, and opening its mouth you will find a stater [56 cents]. Take that and give it to them, for me and you.

They said to him, Caesar's. Then he said to them, Give therefore Caesar's dues to Caesar, and God's to God.

And the chief priests and all the sanhedrim sought false testimony against Jesus to kill him,

And Jesus said, Render Caesar's dues to Caesar, and God's to God. And they wondered at him.

And the chief priests and all the Sanhedrim sought testimony against Jesus to kill him, and did not find it.

neither can they prove the things of which they now accuse me.

having a good conscience, that in what they speak evil of you they may be ashamed who slander your good conduct in Christ.

General references

who had been cast into prison for a certain sedition made in the city, and a murder.

and how our chief priests and rulers delivered him up to the sentence of death, and crucified him,