John 18:28-40 ▼

28 They led, therefore, Jesus from Caiaphas into the Praetorium, and it was early, and they themselves did not enter into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but that they might eat the Passover;

29 Pilate, therefore, went forth to them and said, “What accusation do you bring against this Man?”

30 They answered and said to him, “If He were not doing evil, we had not delivered Him to you.”

31 Pilate, therefore, said to them, “Take Him—you—and judge Him according to your law”; the Jews, therefore, said to him, “It is not lawful to us to put anyone to death”;

32 that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled which He said, signifying by what death He was about to die.

33 Pilate, therefore, entered into the Praetorium again, and called Jesus, and said to Him, “You are the King of the Jews?”

34 Jesus answered him, “Do you say this from yourself? Or did others say it to you about Me?”

35 Pilate answered, “Am I a Jew? Your nation and the chief priests delivered You up to me; what did You do?”

36 Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world; if My kingdom were of this world, My officers had struggled that I might not be delivered up to Jews; but now My kingdom is not from here.”

37 Pilate, therefore, said to Him, “Are You then a king?” Jesus answered, “You say [it], because I am a king; I have been born for this, and I have come into the world for this, that I may testify to the truth; everyone who is of the truth, hears My voice.”

38 Pilate says to Him, “What is truth?” And having said this, again he went forth to the Jews and says to them, “I find no fault in Him;

39 and you have a custom that I will release to you one in the Passover; do you determine, therefore, [that] I will release to you the King of the Jews?”

40 Therefore they all cried out again, saying, “Not this One—but Barabbas”; and Barabbas was a robber.