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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!”
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“Oh, is he a Galilean?” Pilate asked.
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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.
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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.