Luke 23:2
And they began to accuse him, saying: We have found this man perverting our nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, and saying that he is Christ the king.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
1And the whole multitude of them rising up, led him to Pilate.
3And Pilate asked him, saying: Art thou the king of the Jews? But he answering, said: Thou sayest it.
Cross References
1 Kings 18:17And when he had seen him, he said: Art thou he that troublest Israel?
Psalms 35:11Unjust witnesses rising up have asked me things I knew not.
Psalms 64:3Thou hast protected me from the assembly of the malignant; from the multitude of the workers of iniquity.
Jeremiah 37:13And Jeremias answered: It is not so, I am not fleeing to the Chaldeans. But he hearkened not to him: so Jerias took Jeremias and brought him to the princes.
Amos 7:10And Amasias the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying: Amos hath rebelled against thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his words.
Matthew Henry on Luke 23:2-13
Christ before Pilate and Herod; Christ Accused and Insulted. 1 And the whole multitude of them arose, and led him unto Pilate. 2 And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this fellow perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Cæsar, saying that he himself is Christ a King. 3 And Pilate asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews? And he answered him and said, Thou sayest it. 4 Then said Pilate to the chief priests and to the people, I find no fault in this man. 5 And they were the more… Read the whole commentary →