Luke 23:3
Verse 3 of 56. The 23rd of 24 chapters in Luke, in The Gospels.
1And the whole multitude of them arose, and led him unto Pilate.
2And 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.
3And Pilate asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews? And he answered him and said, Thou sayest it.
4Then said Pilate to the chief priests and to the people, I find no fault in this man.
5And they were the more fierce, saying, He stirreth up the people, teaching throughout all Jewry, beginning from Galilee to this place.
6When Pilate heard of Galilee, he asked whether the man were a Galilæan.
7And as soon as he knew that he belonged unto Herod’s jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, who himself also was at Jerusalem at that time.
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Luke 23:3 in the World English Bible
Pilate asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” He answered him, “So you say.”Read Luke 23:3 in the WEB
Matthew Henry on Luke 23:3
His pleading to the indictment: Pilate asked him, Art thou the king of the Jews? v. 3. To which he answered, Thou sayest it; that is, "It is as thou sayest, that I am entitled to the government of the Jewish nation; but in rivalship with the scribes and Pharisees, who tyrannize over them in matters of religion, not in rivalship with Cæsar, whose government relates only to their civil interests."
Read Matthew Henry on Luke 23:1–12: Christ before Pilate and Herod; Christ Accused and Insulted.
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King James Version. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.