Pilate questioned him, “Are you the king of the Jews?” He said to him in reply, “You say so.”
saying, “Where is the newborn king of the Jews? We saw his star at its rising and have come to do him homage.”
I charge [you] before God, who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus, who gave testimony under Pontius Pilate for the noble confession,
The inscription of the charge against him read, “The King of the Jews.”
They began to salute him with, “Hail, King of the Jews!”
Pilate again said to them in reply, “Then what [do you want] me to do with [the man you call] the king of the Jews?”
Pilate answered, “Do you want me to release to you the king of the Jews?”
The chief priests accused him of many things.