2. And they began to accuse him saying, This one we found misleading our nation and making it asur to pay taxes to Caesar and calling himself Moshiach and that he is to be a Melech.
3. And Pilate crossexamined him, saying, Are you the Melech HaYehudim? And in reply, he said to him, You say so?
4. And Pilate said to the Rashei Hakohanim and the multitudes, I find no ashmah (guilt) in this man.
5. But they were insisting, saying, He incites the people, from where he began with his torah (teaching), throughout all of Yehudah, from the Galil even to this place.
6. And when Pilate heard this, he asked whether the man was a Gelili (an inhabitant of the Galil).
7. And having learned that he is under the jurisdiction of Herod, he sent him to Herod, who was also in Yerushalayim during those days.
8. And Herod, having laid eyes on Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach, had great simcha. For he was for a long time wanting to see him, because he keeps hearing things about him and was hoping to watch some ot (miraculous sign) being performed by him.
9. And Herod was questioning him with many words, but he answered him nothing.