1
The whole company of them rose up and brought him before Pilate.
2
They began to accuse him, saying, "We found this man perverting the nation, forbidding paying taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king."
3
Pilate asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" He answered him, "So you say."
4
Pilate said to the chief priests and the multitudes, "I find no basis for a charge against this man."
5
But they insisted, saying, "He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee even to this place."