John 18:36-40

36 Jesus answered, ¹"My kingdom ²is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, ³my servants would have been fighting, that ⁴I 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, ⁵"You say that I am a king. ⁶For this purpose I was born and for this purpose ⁷I have come into the world--⁸to bear witness to the truth. ⁹Everyone who is ¹⁰of the truth ¹¹listens to my voice."

38 Pilate said to him, "What is truth?"After he had said this, ¹²he went back outside to the Jews and told them, ¹³"I find no guilt in him.

39 ¹⁴But you have a custom that I should release one man for you at the Passover. So do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?"

40 They cried out again, ¹⁵"Not this man, but Barabbas!" Now Barabbas was a robber.^[a]

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1. [John 6:15; Daniel 2:44; Daniel 7:14, 27; Luke 17:21]
2. John 8:23; [John 15:19; John 17:14, 16; 1 John 2:16; 1 John 4:5]
3. [Matthew 26:53]
4. John 19:16
5. See Luke 22:70
6. [John 12:27; Romans 14:9]
7. John 16:28
8. John 3:11, 32; John 5:31; John 8:13, 14, 18
9. 1 John 4:6; [John 8:47]
10. 1 John 2:21; 1 John 3:19
11. John 10:16, 27
12. John 19:4
13. John 19:4, 6; See Luke 23:4
14. For ver. 39, 40, see Matthew 27:15-18, 20-23; Mark 15:6-14; Luke 23:18-23
15. Acts 3:14

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[a]. Or an insurrectionist

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John 18:36-40

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