And I will cut off three shepherds in one month, and My soul shall grieve over them, for their souls cried out against Me.

And the chief priests were accusing Him of many things.

But Jesus no longer answered anything, so that Pilate marveled.

They answered and said to him, "If He were not an evildoer, we would not have delivered Him over to you."

But they insisted, saying, "He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee to here."

And it came to pass when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said to Elijah, Are you he that perverts Israel?

And they said to the king, Let that man be slain, for he weakens the hands of the fighting men that are left in the city, and the hands of all the people, speaking to them according to these words; for this man does not prophesy peace to this people, but evil.

Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos is forming conspiracies against you in the midst of the house of Israel: the land will be utterly unable to bear all his words.

And bringing them to the magistrates they said, "These men, being Jews, are agitating our city;

and they are proclaiming customs which are not lawful for us to receive or to do, since we are Romans."

But when they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some brothers to the rulers of the city, crying out, "The men who have upset the whole world, these have come here, too;

whom Jason has received; and these all practice contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying there is another king--Jesus."

For [we] have found this man [to] be a plague, and [one] causing discord among all the Jews throughout the world, and a leader of the Nazarenes sect,

And having watched [Him] closely, they sent spies who pretended to be righteous, that they might seize on His words, in order to deliver Him to the rule and the authority of the governor.

Is it lawful for us to pay taxes to Caesar or not?"

Show Me a denarius. Whose image and inscription does it have?" They answered and said, "Caesar's."

And set two men, sons of transgressors, before him, and let them testify against him, saying, He blasphemed God and the king: and let them lead him forth, and stone him, and let him die.

And they proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth in a chief place among the people.

Unjust witnesses arose, and asked me of things I knew not.

They only took counsel to set at nought my honor. I ran in thirst; with their mouth they blessed, but with their heart they cursed. Pause.

who have sharpened their tongues as a sword; they have bent their bow maliciously;

They have set up for themselves an evil matter, they have given counsel to hide snares; they have said, Who shall see them?

For I have heard the reproach of many gathering round, [saying], Conspire, and let us conspire together against him, [even] all his friends. Watch his intentions, if perhaps he shall be deceived, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall be avenged on him.

And he was in the gate of Benjamin, and [there was] a man there with whom he lodged, Irajah the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he caught Jeremiah, saying, You are fleeing to the Chaldeans.

And the princes were very angry with Jeremiah, and struck him, and sent him into the house of Jonathan the scribe, for they had turned [his house] into a prison.

Nevertheless, lest we offend them, go to the sea, and cast in a hook, and take the first fish coming up. And when you have opened its mouth, you will find a coin; taking that, give it to them for Me and you."

They said to Him, "Caesar's." And He said to them, "Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's."

Now the chief priests, the elders, and all the Sanhedrin were seeking false witnesses against Jesus, so that they might put Him to death,

and they did not find [any]. And though many false witnesses came forward, they did not find [any]. But at last two false witnesses came forward

And Jesus answered and said to them, "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's." And they marveled at Him.

Now the chief priests and the whole council were seeking testimony against Jesus, in order to put Him to death, but found none.

For many were testifying falsely against Him, but their testimonies were not the same.

Nor are they able to prove [against] me the things about which they are now accusing me.

having a good conscience, so that in what they speak against you as evildoers, those reviling your good conduct in Christ may be put to shame.

For Christ also suffered once to atone for sins, [the] just for [the] unjust, that He might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive by the Spirit,

Hereafter the Son of Man will sit on the right hand of the power of God."

Then they all said, "Are You then the Son of God?" So He said to them, "You [rightly] say that I am."

But He kept silent and answered nothing. Again the high priest was questioning Him, saying to Him, "Are You the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?"

And Jesus said, "I am. And you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Power, and coming with the clouds of heaven."

Jesus answered, "My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, My servants would fight, so that I might not be delivered to the Jews; but now My kingdom is not from here."

From this [point] Pilate was seeking to release Him, but the Jews kept crying out, saying, "If you release this [Man], you are no friend of Caesar's. Whoever makes himself a king speaks against Caesar."