Jesus Faces Pilate

23 Then(A) their whole assembly rose up and brought him before Pilate. They began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man misleading our nation, opposing payment of taxes(B) to Caesar, and saying that he himself is the Messiah, a king.”

So Pilate asked him,(C) “Are you the king of the Jews?” (D)

He answered him, “You say so.”[a]

Pilate then told the chief priests and the crowds, “I find no grounds(E) for charging this man.”

But they kept insisting, “He stirs up the people,(F) teaching throughout all Judea, from Galilee(G) where he started even to here.”

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Footnotes

  1. 23:3 Or “That is true.”

Jesus Brought Before Pilate

23 And the whole assembly of them rose up and[a] brought him before Pilate. And they began to accuse him, saying, “We have found this man misleading our nation and forbidding us[b] to pay taxes to Caesar, and saying he himself is Christ, a king!” And Pilate asked him, saying, “Are you the king of the Jews?” And he answered him and[c] said, “You say so.” So Pilate said to the chief priests and the crowds, “I find no basis for an accusation against this man.” But they insisted, saying, “He incites the people, teaching throughout the whole of Judea and beginning from Galilee as far as here.”

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 23:1 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“rose up”) has been translated as a finite verb
  2. Luke 23:2 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  3. Luke 23:3 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“answered”) has been translated as a finite verb