And Pilate asked him, saying, “Are you the king of the Jews?” And he answered him and[a] 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 23:3 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“answered”) has been translated as a finite verb

So Pilate asked Jesus, “Are you the king of the Jews?”

“You have said so,” Jesus replied.

Then Pilate announced to the chief priests and the crowd, “I find no basis for a charge against this man.”(A)

But they insisted, “He stirs up the people all over Judea by his teaching. He started in Galilee(B) and has come all the way here.”

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