John 18:29-38

29 ¹So Pilate went outside to them and said, "What accusation do you bring against this man?"

30 They answered him, "If this man were not doing evil, we would not have delivered him over to you."

31 Pilate said to them, ²"Take him yourselves and judge him by your own law." The Jews said to him, "It is not lawful for us to put anyone to death."

32 ³This was to fulfill the word that Jesus had spoken ⁴to show by what kind of death he was going to die.

My Kingdom Is Not of This World

33 ⁵So Pilate entered his headquarters again and called Jesus and said to him, ⁶"Are you the King of the Jews?"

34 Jesus answered, "Do you say this of your own accord, or did others say it to you about me?"

35 Pilate answered, "Am I a Jew? Your own nation and the chief priests have delivered you over to me. What have you done?"

36 Jesus answered, ⁷"My kingdom ⁸is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, ⁹my servants would have been fighting, that ¹⁰I might not be delivered over to the Jews. But my kingdom is not from the world."

37 Then Pilate said to him, "So you are a king?" Jesus answered, ¹¹"You say that I am a king. ¹²For this purpose I was born and for this purpose ¹³I have come into the world--¹⁴to bear witness to the truth. ¹⁵Everyone who is ¹⁶of the truth ¹⁷listens to my voice."

38 Pilate said to him, "What is truth?"After he had said this, ¹⁸he went back outside to the Jews and told them, ¹⁹"I find no guilt in him.