1
Then the whole company of them arose, and brought him before Pilate.
2
And they began to accuse him, saying, "We found this man perverting our nation, and forbidding us to give tribute to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ a king."
3
And Pilate asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" And he answered him, "You have said so."
4
And Pilate said to the chief priests and the multitudes, "I find no crime in this man.
5
But they were urgent, saying, "He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, from Galilee even to this place."
6
When Pilate heard this, he asked whether the man was a Galilean.
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