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Luke 22
⁷¹ “Why do we need other witnesses?” they said. “We ourselves heard him say it.”
Luke 23
¹ Then the entire council took Jesus to Pilate, the Roman governor.
² They began to state their case: “This man has been leading our people astray by telling them not to pay their taxes to the Roman government and by claiming he is the Messiah, a king.”
³ So Pilate asked him, “Are you the king of the Jews?” Jesus replied, “You have said it.”
⁴ Pilate turned to the leading priests and to the crowd and said, “I find nothing wrong with this man!”
⁵ Then they became insistent. “But he is causing riots by his teaching wherever he goes—all over Judea, from Galilee to Jerusalem!”
⁶ “Oh, is he a Galilean?” Pilate asked.
⁷ When they said that he was, Pilate sent him to Herod Antipas, because Galilee was under Herod’s jurisdiction, and Herod happened to be in Jerusalem at the time.
⁸ Herod was delighted at the opportunity to see Jesus, because he had heard about him and had been hoping for a long time to see him perform a miracle.
⁹ He asked Jesus question after question, but Jesus refused to answer.
¹⁰ Meanwhile, the leading priests and the teachers of religious law stood there shouting their accusations.