Luke 23:1-5

Contemporary English Version

Pilate Questions Jesus

(Matthew 27.1,2,11-14; Mark 15.1-5; John 18.28-38)

23 Everyone in the council got up and led Jesus off to Pilate. ² They started accusing him and said, “We caught this man trying to get our people to riot and to stop paying taxes to the Emperor. He also claims that he is the Messiah, our king.”

³ Pilate asked Jesus, “Are you the king of the Jews?”

“Those are your words,” Jesus answered.

⁴ Pilate told the chief priests and the crowd, “I don't find him guilty of anything.”

⁵ But they all kept on saying, “He has been teaching and causing trouble all over Judea. He started in Galilee and has now come all the way here.”