Luke 23:1-7

1Then the whole assembly got up and brought Him before Pilate.

2They began to accuse Jesus, asserting, “We found this Man misleading and perverting our nation and forbidding us to pay taxes to Caesar, and claiming that He Himself is Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed), a King.”

3So Pilate asked Him, “Are You the King of the Jews?” And He answered him, “It is just as you say.”

4Then Pilate said to the chief priests and the crowds, “I find no guilt in this Man.”

5But they were insistent and said, “He stirs up the people [to rebel], teaching throughout Judea, starting from Galilee even as far as here [in Jerusalem].”

6When Pilate heard it, he asked whether the man was a Galilean.

7And when he learned that He belonged to the jurisdiction of Herod [Antipas, the tetrarch of Galilee], he sent Him to Herod, who was also in Jerusalem at that time.