Luke 23:1-9 ▼

1 AND the whole multitude of them rising up, led him to Pilate,

2 and began to accuse him, saying, We have found this fellow perverting the nation, and forbidding to pay tribute to Cæsar; pretending that he himself is the King Messiah.

3 Then Pilate interrogated him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews? And he answering said to him, Thou sayest so.

4 Then said Pilate unto the chief priests and the multitudes, I find nothing culpable in this man.

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.