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36 Jesus said to him, My kingdom is not of this world; if my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have fought so that I should not be delivered to the Jews; but now my kingdom is not from here. 37 Pilate said to him, Then are you a king? Jesus said to him, You say that I am a king. For this I was born, and for this very thing I came to the world, that I may bear witness concerning the truth. Whoever is of the truth will hear my voice. 38 Pilate said to him, What is this truth? And as he said this, he went out again to the Jews, and said to them, I am unable to find even one cause against him. 39 You have a custom that I should release to you one at the passover; do you wish, therefore, that I release to you this “king of the Jews”? 40 They all cried out saying, Not him, but Bar-Abbas. Now this Bar-Abbas was a bandit. John 18:36-40, Lamsa Bible. Public domain.
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