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Pilate said, Am I a Jew? Your nation and the chief priests have given you into my hands: what have you done?
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Jesus said in answer, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom was of this world, my disciples would have made a good fight to keep me out of the hands of the Jews: but my kingdom is not here.
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Then Pilate said to him, Are you then a king? Jesus made answer, You say that I am a king. For this purpose was I given birth, and for this purpose I came into the world, that I might give witness to what is true. Every lover of what is true gives ear to my voice.
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Pilate said to him, True? what is true? Having said this he went out again to the Jews and said to them, I see no wrong in him.
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But every year you make a request to me to let a prisoner go free at the Passover. Is it your desire that I let the King of the Jews go free?
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Then again they gave a loud cry, Not this man, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was an outlaw.