Quotes About Accusation

Then Pilate questioned Him again, “Have You no answer? Look how many charges they are bringing against You!”

“Why?” asked Pilate. “What evil has He done?” But they shouted all the louder, “Crucify Him!”

Looking for a reason to accuse Jesus, the scribes and Pharisees were watching Him closely to see if He would heal on the Sabbath.

About an hour later, another man insisted, “Certainly this man was with Him, for he too is a Galilean.”

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.”

Meanwhile, the chief priests and scribes stood there, vehemently accusing Him.

and said to them, “You brought me this man as one who was inciting the people to rebellion. I have examined Him here in your presence and found Him not guilty of your charges against Him.

Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, in whom you have put your hope.

“You have a demon,” the crowd replied. “Who is trying to kill You?”

They said this to test Him, in order to have a basis for accusing Him. But Jesus bent down and began to write on the ground with His finger.

Then Jesus straightened up and asked her, “Woman, where are your accusers? Has no one condemned you?”

The Jews answered Him, “Are we not right to say that You are a Samaritan and You have a demon?”

then what about the One whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world? How then can you accuse Me of blasphemy for stating that I am the Son of God?

So Pilate went out to them and asked, “What accusation are you bringing against this man?”

“If He were not a criminal,” they replied, “we would not have handed Him over to you.”

“Am I a Jew?” Pilate replied. “Your own people and chief priests handed You over to me. What have You done?”

Then they prompted some men to say, “We heard Stephen speak words of blasphemy against Moses and against God.”

where they presented false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking against this holy place and against the law.

Then the high priest asked Stephen, “Are these charges true?”

And though they found no ground for a death sentence, they asked Pilate to have Him executed.

They brought them to the magistrates and said, “These men are Jews and are throwing our city into turmoil

For you have brought these men here, though they have neither robbed our temple nor blasphemed our goddess.

crying out, “Men of Israel, help us! This is the man who teaches everywhere against our people and against our law and against this place. Furthermore, he has brought Greeks into the temple and defiled this holy place.”

For they had previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian with him in the city, and they assumed that Paul had brought him into the temple.