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John 18:28 (NIV)
Then the Jewish leaders took Jesus from Caiaphas to the palace of the Roman governor. By now it was early morning, and to avoid ceremonial uncleanness they did not enter the palace, because they wanted to be able to eat the Passover.
John 18:29 (NIV)
So Pilate came out to them and asked, “What charges are you bringing against this man?”
John 18:30 (NIV)
“If he were not a criminal,” they replied, “we would not have handed him over to you.”
John 18:31 (NIV)
Pilate said, “Take him yourselves and judge him by your own law.” “But we have no right to execute anyone,” they objected.
John 18:32 (NIV)
This took place to fulfill what Jesus had said about the kind of death he was going to die.
John 18:33 (NIV)
Pilate then went back inside the palace, summoned Jesus and asked him, “Are you the king of the Jews?”
John 18:34 (NIV)
“Is that your own idea,” Jesus asked, “or did others talk to you about me?”
John 18:35 (NIV)
“Am I a Jew?” Pilate replied. “Your own people and chief priests handed you over to me. What is it you have done?”
John 18:36 (NIV)
Jesus said, “My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jewish leaders. But now my kingdom is from another place.”
John 18:37 (NIV)
“You are a king, then!” said Pilate. Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. In fact, the reason I was born and came into the world is to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me.”
John 18:38 (NIV)
“What is truth?” retorted Pilate. With this he went out again to the Jews gathered there and said, “I find no basis for a charge against him.
John 18:39 (NIV)
But it is your custom for me to release to you one prisoner at the time of the Passover. Do you want me to release ‘the king of the Jews’?”
John 18:40 (NIV)
They shouted back, “No, not him! Give us Barabbas!” Now Barabbas had taken part in an uprising.
John 19:1 (NIV)
Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged.
John 19:2 (NIV)
The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head. They clothed him in a purple robe
John 19:3 (NIV)
and went up to him again and again, saying, “Hail, king of the Jews!” And they slapped him in the face.
John 19:4 (NIV)
Once more Pilate came out and said to the Jews gathered there, “Look, I am bringing him out to you to let you know that I find no basis for a charge against him.”
John 19:5 (NIV)
When Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, Pilate said to them, “Here is the man!”
John 19:6 (NIV)
As soon as the chief priests and their officials saw him, they shouted, “Crucify! Crucify!” But Pilate answered, “You take him and crucify him. As for me, I find no basis for a charge against him.”
John 19:7 (NIV)
The Jewish leaders insisted, “We have a law, and according to that law he must die, because he claimed to be the Son of God.”
John 19:8 (NIV)
When Pilate heard this, he was even more afraid,
John 19:9 (NIV)
and he went back inside the palace. “Where do you come from?” he asked Jesus, but Jesus gave him no answer.
John 19:10 (NIV)
“Do you refuse to speak to me?” Pilate said. “Don’t you realize I have power either to free you or to crucify you?”
John 19:11 (NIV)
Jesus answered, “You would have no power over me if it were not given to you from above. Therefore the one who handed me over to you is guilty of a greater sin.”
John 19:12 (NIV)
From then on, Pilate tried to set Jesus free, but the Jewish leaders kept shouting, “If you let this man go, you are no friend of Caesar. Anyone who claims to be a king opposes Caesar.”