Luke 23:1

Jesus Brought Before Pilate

1 And the whole assembly of them rose up [and] brought him before Pilate.

Luke 23:1 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 23:1

And the whole multitude of them
Of the chief priests, Scribes, and elders; the whole of the sanhedrim, excepting Nicodemus, and Joseph of Arimathea, having in their court condemned Christ to death:

arose;
from the council chamber, where they sat in judgment upon him:

and led him unto Pilate,
the Roman governor, and into the praetorium, or judgment hall, where causes were tried by him; hither they brought Jesus, having bound him as a prisoner and a malefactor, that their sentence might be confirmed by civil authority, and that he might be put to the death of the cross, which was a Roman punishment.

Luke 23:1 In-Context

1 And the whole assembly of them rose up [and] brought him before Pilate.

2 And they began to accuse him, saying, "We have found this man misleading our nation and forbidding [us] to pay taxes to Caesar, and saying [he] himself is Christ, a king!"

3 And Pilate asked him, saying, "Are you the king of the Jews?" And he answered him [and] said, "You say [so]."

4 So Pilate said to the chief priests and the crowds, "I find no basis for an accusation against this man.

5 But they insisted, saying, "He incites the people, teaching throughout the whole of Judea and beginning from Galilee as far as here."

Footnotes

• [a] *Here "[and]" is supplied because the previous participle ("rose up") has been translated as a finite verb