1. Everyone in the council got up and led Jesus off to Pilate.
2. They started accusing him and said, “We caught this man trying to get our people to riot and to stop paying taxes to the Emperor. He also claims that he is the Messiah, our king.”
3. Pilate asked Jesus, “Are you the king of the Jews?”“Those are your words,” Jesus answered.
4. Pilate told the chief priests and the crowd, “I don't find him guilty of anything.”
5. But they all kept on saying, “He has been teaching and causing trouble all over Judea. He started in Galilee and has now come all the way here.”
6. When Pilate heard this, he asked, “Is this man from Galilee?”
7. After Pilate learnt that Jesus came from the region ruled by Herod, he sent him to Herod, who was in Jerusalem at that time.
8. For a long time Herod had wanted to see Jesus and was very happy because he finally had this chance. He had heard many things about Jesus and hoped to see him perform a miracle.
9. Herod asked him a lot of questions, but Jesus did not answer.
10. Then the chief priests and the teachers of the Law of Moses stood up and accused him of all kinds of bad things.
11. Herod and his soldiers made fun of Jesus and insulted him. They put a fine robe on him and sent him back to Pilate.
12. That same day Herod and Pilate became friends, even though they had been enemies before this.