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Then the whole assembly rose and brought Him to Pilate, and began to accuse Him.
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"We have found this man," they said, "an agitator among our nation, forbidding the payment of tribute to Caesar, and claiming to be himself an anointed king."
3
Then Pilate asked Him, "You, then, are the King of the Jews?" "It is as you say," He replied.
4
Pilate said to the High Priests and to the crowd, "I can find no crime in this man.
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But they violently insisted. "He stirs up the people," they said, "throughout all Judaea with His teaching--even from Galilee (where He first started) to this city."
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On hearing this, Pilate inquired, "Is this man a Galilaean?"
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And learning that He belonged to Herod's jurisdiction he sent Him to Herod, for he too was in Jerusalem at that time.