The chief priests and the scribes stood by, vehemently accusing him.
But when he was accused by the chief priests and elders, he made no answer.
As he went away from there, the scribes and the Pharisees began to press him hard, and to provoke him to speak of many things,
And Herod with his soldiers treated him with contempt and mocked him; then, arraying him in gorgeous apparel, he sent him back to Pilate.
And they began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man perverting our nation, and forbidding us to give tribute to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ a king.”
But they were urgent, saying, “He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, from Galilee even to this place.”
So he questioned him at some length; but he made no answer.
For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, an agitator among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.