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Luke 22:66 - 23:25
66 At daybreak, the people's council of elders, including both head cohanim and Torah-teachers, met and led him off to their Sanhedrin,
67 where they said, "If you are the Mashiach, tell us." He answered, "If I tell you, you won't believe me;
68 and if I ask you, you won't answer.
69 But from now on, the Son of Man will be sitting at the right hand of HaG'vurah,"
70 They all said, "Does this mean, then, that you are the Son of God?" And he answered them, "You say I am."
71 They said, "Why do we need additional testimony? We have heard it ourselves from his own mouth!"
Luke 23
1 With that, the whole Sanhedrin got up and brought Yeshua before Pilate,
2 where they started accusing him. "We found this man subverting our nation, forbidding us to pay taxes to the Emperor and claiming that he himself is the Messiah -- a king!"
3 Pilate asked him, "Are you the king of the Jews?" And he answered him, "The words are yours."
4 Pilate said to the head cohanim and the crowds, "I find no ground for a charge against this man."
5 But they persisted. "He is inciting the people with his teaching throughout all Y'hudah -- he started in the Galil, and now he's here!"
6 On hearing this, Pilate asked if the man was from the Galil;
7 and when he learned that he was under Herod's jurisdiction, he sent him over to Herod, who at that time happened to be in Yerushalayim too.
8 Herod was delighted to see Yeshua, because he had heard about him and for a long time had been wanting to meet him; indeed, he hoped to see him perform some miracle.
9 He questioned him at great length,
10 but Yeshua made no reply. However, the head cohanim and the Torah-teachers stood there, vehemently pressing their case against him.
11 Herod and his soldiers treated Yeshua with contempt and made fun of him. Then, dressing him in an elegant robe, they sent him back to Pilate.
12 That day Herod and Pilate became friends with each other; previously they had been enemies.
13 Pilate summoned the head cohanim, the leaders and the people,
14 and said to them, "You brought this man before me on a charge of subverting the people. I examined him in your presence and did not find the man guilty of the crime you are accusing him of.
15 And neither did Herod, because he sent him back to us. Clearly, he has not done anything that merits the death penalty.
16 Therefore, what I will do is have him flogged and release him."
17 Some manuscripts have verse 17: For he was required to release one man to them at the festival.
18 But with one voice they shouted, "Away with this man! Give us Bar-Abba!"
19 (He was a man who had been thrown in prison for causing a riot in the city and for murder.)
20 Pilate appealed to them again, because he wanted to release Yeshua.
21 But they yelled, "Put him to death on the stake! Put him to death on the stake!"
22 A third time he asked them, "But what has this man done wrong? I haven't found any reason to put him to death. So I'm going to have him flogged and set free."
23 But they went on yelling insistently, demanding that he be executed on the stake; and their shouting prevailed.
24 Pilate decided to grant their demand;
25 he released the man who had been thrown in prison for insurrection and murder, the one they had asked for; and Yeshua he surrendered to their will.
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