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Then the entire council took Jesus to Pilate, the Roman governor.
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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.”
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So Pilate asked him, “Are you the king of the Jews?” Jesus replied, “You have said it.”
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Pilate turned to the leading priests and to the crowd and said, “I find nothing wrong with this man!”
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Then they became insistent. “But he is causing riots by his teaching wherever he goes—all over Judea, from Galilee to Jerusalem!”