1. The whole group rose up and took Jesus before Pilate,
2. where they began to accuse him: “We caught this man misleading our people, telling them not to pay taxes to the Emperor and claiming that he himself is the Messiah, a king.”
3. Pilate asked him, “Are you the king of the Jews?” “So you say,” answered Jesus.
4. Then Pilate said to the chief priests and the crowds, “I find no reason to condemn this man.”
5. But they insisted even more strongly, “With his teaching he is starting a riot among the people all through Judea. He began in Galilee and now has come here.”