Luke 23:5-16 - Pilate Sends Jesus To Herod

⁵ But they were urgent, saying, He stirreth up the people, teaching through all Judea, beginning from Galilee even to this place.

⁶ When Pilate heard of Galilee, he asked whether the man were a Galilean? ⁷ And when he knew that he came out of Herod's jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, who was himself at Jerusalem in those days. ⁸ Now when Herod saw Jesus, he was vastly delighted: for he had been long desirous to see him, because he had heard many things of him; and he hoped to see some miracle wrought by him. ⁹ And he put a variety of questions to him; but he made him no reply. ¹⁰ And the chief priests and the scribes stood up vehemently accusing him. ¹¹ Then Herod with his guards treated him with contempt, and in derision clothed him in a splendid robe, and sent him back to Pilate. ¹² And Pilate and Herod the same day became friends together: for they had previously been at enmity with each other.

¹³ Then Pilate, convoking the chief priests and the rulers and the people, ¹⁴ said unto them, Ye have brought this man to me, as one who perverteth the people: and lo! on examining him before you, I have found nothing culpable in this man, respecting the charges ye bring against him: ¹⁵ nor Herod neither: for I referred you to him; and, lo, nothing is done to this man, as if he deserved death. ¹⁶ I will therefore, after scourging, discharge him.