Luke 23:3-5

Living Bible

³ So Pilate asked him, “Are you their Messiah—their King?”^[a]

“Yes,” Jesus replied, “it is as you say.”

⁴ Then Pilate turned to the chief priests and to the mob and said, “So? That isn’t a crime!”

⁵ Then they became desperate. “But he is causing riots against the government everywhere he goes, all over Judea, from Galilee to Jerusalem!”