¹⁰ The chief priests and the scribes stood by, vehemently accusing him.

⁵ For we have found this man a plague, ^(A)one who stirs up riots among all the Jews throughout the world and is a ringleader of ^(B)the sect of the Nazarenes.

¹⁴ and said to them, “You brought me this man ^(A)as one who was misleading the people. And ^(B)after examining him before you, behold, I ^(C)did not find this man guilty of any of your charges against him. ¹⁵ Neither did Herod, for ^(D)he sent him back to us. Look, nothing deserving death has been done by him.

⁵ But they were urgent, saying, “He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, ^(A)from Galilee even to this place.”

² And they began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man ^(A)misleading our nation and ^(B)forbidding us to give tribute to ^(C)Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, ^(D)a king.”

⁵³ As he went away from there, the scribes and the Pharisees began to press him hard and to provoke him to speak about many things,