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And they began to accuse Him, asserting, We found this [a]Man perverting (misleading, corrupting, and turning away) our nation and forbidding to pay tribute to Caesar, saying that He Himself is Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One), a King!

So Pilate asked Him, Are You the King of the Jews? And He answered him, [[b]It is just as] you say. [I Am.]

And Pilate said to the chief priests and the throngs, I find no guilt or crime in this Man.

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 23:2 Capitalized because of what He is, the spotless Son of God, not what the speaker may have thought He was.
  2. Luke 23:3 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon.

And they began to accuse him, saying, “We have found this man subverting our nation.(A) He opposes payment of taxes to Caesar(B) and claims to be Messiah, a king.”(C)

So Pilate asked Jesus, “Are you the king of the Jews?”

“You have said so,” Jesus replied.

Then Pilate announced to the chief priests and the crowd, “I find no basis for a charge against this man.”(D)

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