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30 They answered and said to him, If he were not injurious, we had not delivered him to thee. 31 Then said Pilate to them, Take ye him, and judge him according to your law. Then said the Jews to him, It is not lawful for us to kill any one: 32 That the word of Jesus might be completed which he spake, giving a sign by what death he was about to die. 33 Then came Pilate again into the pretorium, and asked Jesus, and said to him, Art thou the King of the Jews? 34 Jesus answered him, of thyself sayest thou this, or did others tell thee of me? 35 Pilate answered, Much less am I a Jew; thy nation and the chief priests have delivered thee to me: What didst thou? 36 Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, my servants had contended, that I be not delivered to the Jews; and now my kingdom is not hence. 37 Then said Pilate to him, Art thou not then king? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am king. For this was I born, and for this came I into the world, that I testify to the truth. Every one being of the truth hears my voice. 38 Pilate says to him, What is truth? And having said this, again went he out to the Jews, and says to them, I find no fault in him. 39 But a custom is to you, that I loose one to you in the pascha: will ye therefore I should loose to you the King of the Jews. 40 Then cried they all again, saying, Not this, but Barabbas: and Barabbas was a robber. John 18:30-40, Smith's Literal Translation. Public domain.
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