Luke 23:1-5 - Jesus Brought Before Pilate

¹ Then they arose in a body and took him to Pilate, ² and they made this charge against him: "Here is a man whom we have found misleading our nation, and forbidding the payment of taxes to the emperor, and claiming to be an anointed king himself."

³ And Pilate asked him, "Are you the king of the Jews?" He answered, "Yes."

⁴ And Pilate said to the high priests and the crowd, "I cannot find anything criminal about this man."

⁵ But they persisted and said, "He is stirring up the people all over Judea by his teaching. He began in Galilee and he has come here."

²⁸ Then they took Jesus from Caiaphas to the governor's house. It was early in the morning, and they would not go into the governor's house themselves, to avoid being ceremonially defiled and to be able to eat the Passover supper.

²⁹ So Pilate came outside to them, and said, "What charge do you make against this man?"

³⁰ They answered, "If he were not a criminal, we would not have turned him over to you."

³¹ Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves, and try him by your law." The Jews said to him, "We have no authority to put anyone to death." ³² This was to fulfil what Jesus said when he declared how he was to die.