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Luke 23:3
Luke 23:3 is verse 3 of Luke chapter 23, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
So Pilate asked Him, “Are You the King of the Jews?” “You have said so,” Jesus replied.
King James Version
And Pilate asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews? And he answered him and said, Thou sayest it.
World English Bible
Pilate asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” He answered him, “So you say.”
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Luke 23:1–5 · Berean Standard Bible
1 Then the whole council rose and led Jesus away to Pilate.
2 And they began to accuse Him, saying, “We found this man subverting our nation, forbidding payment of taxes to Caesar, and proclaiming Himself to be Christ, a King.”
3 So Pilate asked Him, “Are You the King of the Jews?” “You have said so,” Jesus replied.
4 Then Pilate said to the chief priests and the crowds, “I find no basis for a charge against this man.”
5 But they kept insisting, “He stirs up the people all over Judea with His teaching. He began in Galilee and has come all the way here.”
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Matthew 27:11Meanwhile Jesus stood before the governor, who questioned Him: “Are You the King of the Jews?” “You have said so,” Jesus replied.
Mark 15:2So Pilate questioned Him, “Are You the King of the Jews?” “You have said so,” Jesus replied.
John 18:33Pilate went back into the Praetorium, summoned Jesus, and asked Him, “Are You the King of the Jews?”
John 18:34“Are you saying this on your own,” Jesus asked, “or did others tell you about Me?”
John 18:35“Am I a Jew?” Pilate replied. “Your own people and chief priests handed You over to me. What have You done?”
John 18:36Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world; if it were, My servants would fight to prevent My arrest by the Jews. But now My kingdom is not of this realm.”
John 18:37“Then You are a king!” Pilate said. “You say that I am a king,” Jesus answered. “For this reason I was born and have come into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to My voice.”
1 Timothy 6:13I charge you in the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who made the good confession in His testimony before Pontius Pilate:
Luke 23:38Above Him was posted an inscription: THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.
Luke 1:32He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David,
Luke 1:33and He will reign over the house of Jacob forever. His kingdom will never end!”
Luke 19:38“Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord!” “Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!”
Luke 19:39But some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to Him, “Teacher, rebuke Your disciples!”
Luke 19:40“I tell you,” He answered, “if they remain silent, the very stones will cry out.”
Mark 15:18And they began to salute Him: “Hail, King of the Jews!”
Mark 15:32Let the Christ, the King of Israel, come down now from the cross, so that we may see and believe!” And even those who were crucified with Him berated Him.
John 1:49“Rabbi,” Nathanael answered, “You are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!”
John 19:3And they went up to Him again and again, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and slapping Him in the face.
John 19:19Pilate also had a notice posted on the cross. It read: JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS.
John 19:20Many of the Jews read this sign, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek.
John 19:21So the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Do not write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but only that He said, ‘I am the King of the Jews.’”