Pilate asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?”
He answered him, “So you say.”
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Luke 23:3 in context
Luke 23:1–6
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The whole company of them rose up and brought him before Pilate.
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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.”
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Pilate asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?”
He answered him, “So you say.”
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Pilate said to the chief priests and the multitudes, “I find no basis for a charge against this man.”
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But they insisted, saying, “He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee even to this place.”
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But when Pilate heard Galilee mentioned, he asked if the man was a Galilean.
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