Luke 23:1-5 - Jesus Brought Before Pilate

¹ Then the whole crowd got up and took him to Pilate. ² They began to accuse him, "We found this man corrupting our nation, forbidding us to pay taxes to Caesar, and saying that he is the Messiah, a king."

³ Then Pilate asked him, "Are you the king of the Jews?" He answered, "You say so."

⁴ Then Pilate told the high priests and crowds, "I do not find anything chargeable in this man."

⁵ But they kept insisting, "He is stirring up the people with what he teaches all over Judea, from where he started in Galilee to this place."

²⁸ Then Jesus was led from Caiaphas to the governor's headquarters early in the morning. The Jews did not go into the headquarters, to avoid becoming unclean and unable to eat the Passover meal.

²⁹ So Pilate came out to them and asked, "What accusation are you bringing against this man?"

³⁰ They answered him, "If he weren't a criminal, we wouldn't have handed him over to you."

³¹ Pilate told them, "You take him and try him according to your Law." ³² The Jewish leaders told him, "It is not legal for us to put anyone to death." This was to fulfill what Jesus had said when he indicated the kind of death he was to die.