mnt - Luke:22:66-23:25

mnt@Luke:22:66 @ When it became the day the elders if the people met with the high priests and the Scribes and had brought before the Sanhedrin, saying.

mnt@Luke:22:67 @ "Are you the Christ? Tell us!" "If I tell you," he answered, "you will not believe;

mnt@Luke:22:68 @ "And if I ask you, you will not answer.

mnt@Luke:22:69 @ "But from henceforth the Son of man will be seated at the right hand of the power of God."

mnt@Luke:22:70 @ Then they all said, "Are you then the Son of God."

mnt@Luke:22:71 @ "What need we of further evidence? for we ourselves have heard it from his own lips."

mnt@Luke:23:1 @ Then the whole company rose up and brought him to Pilate,

mnt@Luke:23:2 @ and began to accuse him. "We have found this fellow perverting our nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, and proclaiming that he is the Messiah and King."

mnt@Luke:23:3 @ Then Pilate asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" And he answered him saying, "Certainly I am."

mnt@Luke:23:4 @ And Pilate said to the chief priest and the crowd, "I find no harm in this man."

mnt@Luke:23:5 @ But they repeatedly insisted, "He is stirring up the people throughout all Judea with his teaching which started from Galilee."

mnt@Luke:23:6 @ When Pilate heard the word "Galilee" he asked if the man were a Galilean,

mnt@Luke:23:7 @ and when he learned that he belonged to Herods jurisdiction he sent him to Herod, who himself happened to be in Jerusalem during those days.

mnt@Luke:23:8 @ Now when Herod saw Jesus he was exceedingly glad. He had long been wanting to see him, because he had heard so much about him, and was hoping to see some miracles performed by him.

mnt@Luke:23:9 @ So he had been asking him many questions, but Jesus made no answers.

mnt@Luke:23:10 @ Meanwhile the high priests and Scribes were standing around, and continually making accusations to him against him.

mnt@Luke:23:11 @ Then Herod and his soldiers set him at naught, and mocked him, and throwing about him a gorgeous robe, sent him back to Pilate.

mnt@Luke:23:12 @ Herod and Pilate became friends again from that very day; for before they had been at enmity between themselves.

mnt@Luke:23:13 @ So Pilate called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people,

mnt@Luke:23:14 @ and said to them. "You brought before me this man as one who incited the people to rebellion. I have examined him in your presence, and I find no fault in this man regarding the charges that you brought against him.

mnt@Luke:23:15 @ Neither does Herod; for he sent him back to us. You see that he has done nothing worthy of death.

mnt@Luke:23:16 @ I will therefore, after flogging him, release him."

mnt@Luke:23:17 @ "Now he had to release to them at the feast one prisoner."

mnt@Luke:23:18 @ Then the whole crowd shouted out, "Away with this man, and release to us Barabbas."

mnt@Luke:23:19 @ (This was a man who had been thrown in prison on account of a riot which had occurred in the city, and for murder.)

mnt@Luke:23:20 @ Then Pilate spoke to them again, because he wished to release Jesus;

mnt@Luke:23:21 @ but they continued to shout out and say, "Crucify! Crucify him!"

mnt@Luke:23:22 @ For the third time he appealed to them. "But what crime has he committed? I have found in him nothing that deserves death. I will therefore flog him, and let him go."

mnt@Luke:23:23 @ But they kept shouting the more insistently, demanding that he should be crucified, and their shouts won the day.

mnt@Luke:23:24 @ So Pilate gave sentence what they wished should be done.

mnt@Luke:23:25 @ He released the man who had been put in prison for riot and murder, the man whom they asked for; but Jesus he handed over to their will.