Luke 22:66-23:12 Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

Jesus Faces the Sanhedrin

⁶⁶ When daylight came, the elders^[a] of the people, both the chief priests and the scribes, convened and brought him before their Sanhedrin. ⁶⁷ They said, “If you are the Messiah, tell us.”

But he said to them, “If I do tell you, you will not believe. ⁶⁸ And if I ask you, you will not answer. ⁶⁹ But from now on, the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of the power of God.”

⁷⁰ They all asked, “Are you, then, the Son of God?”

And he said to them, “You say that I am.”

⁷¹ “Why do we need any more testimony,” they said, “since we’ve heard it ourselves from his mouth?”

Jesus Faces Pilate

23 Then their whole assembly rose up and brought him before Pilate. ² They began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man misleading our nation, opposing payment of taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself is the Messiah, a king.”

³ So Pilate asked him, “Are you the king of the Jews?”

He answered him, “You say so.”^[b]

⁴ Pilate then told the chief priests and the crowds, “I find no grounds for charging this man.”

⁵ But they kept insisting, “He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, from Galilee where he started even to here.”

Jesus Faces Herod Antipas

⁶ When Pilate heard this,^[c] he asked if the man was a Galilean. ⁷ Finding that he was under Herod’s jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, who was also in Jerusalem during those days. ⁸ Herod was very glad to see Jesus; for a long time he had wanted to see him because he had heard about him and was hoping to see some miracle^[d] performed by him. ⁹ So he kept asking him questions, but Jesus did not answer him. ¹⁰ The chief priests and the scribes stood by, vehemently accusing him. ¹¹ Then Herod, with his soldiers, treated him with contempt, mocked him, dressed him in bright clothing, and sent him back to Pilate. ¹² That very day Herod and Pilate became friends.^[e] Previously, they had been enemies.