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

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

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

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

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 23:3 Are you their Messiah—their King? literally, “Are you the King of the Jews?”

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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