Jesus Before Pilate

1 ^bThen the whole company of them arose and brought him before Pilate. 2 ^cAnd they began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man misleading our nation and ^dforbidding us to give tribute to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a ^eking.” 3 And Pilate asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” And he answered him, “You have said so.” 4 Then Pilate said to the chief priests and the crowds, “I find ^fno guilt 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 And when they could not find them, they dragged Jason and some of the brothers before the city authorities, shouting, “These men who have ^wturned the world upside down have come here also, 7 and Jason has received them, and they are all acting against the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another ^xking, Jesus.”

5 For we have found this man a plague, one who ^pstirs up riots among all the Jews throughout the world and is a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.