Luke 23:5-12

⁵The Jewish leaders kept on blaming Jesus. They told Pilate, “He gets people everywhere to go wild. He started to do that in Galilee country, then in Judea country, and now he is doing it here in Jerusalem.”

⁶When Pilate heard them say that, he asked them, “Does he come from Galilee country?”

⁷They said, “Yes, Jesus is from Galilee.” The big boss of Galilee was Herod, and he was visiting Jerusalem at that time. So Pilate sent Jesus to him, to let Herod be his judge.

⁸Herod was very happy to see Jesus. You see, a long time before that day Herod heard about Jesus, so he always wanted to meet him. He wanted to see Jesus do something powerful.

⁹So Herod asked him a lot of questions, but Jesus didn’t answer any of them.

¹⁰The leaders of the Jewish ceremonies and their law teachers stood there all the time, shouting out and blaming Jesus.

¹¹Then Herod and his soldiers started laughing at Jesus and rubbishing him. They put a pretty coat on him, the kind that a boss wears. Then they sent him back to Pilate.

¹²You know, before that day Herod and Pilate didn’t like each other, but on that day they became friends.