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They answered and said to him, If this [man] were not an evildoer, we should not have delivered him up to thee.
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Pilate therefore said to them, Take him, ye, and judge him according to your law. The Jews therefore said to him, It is not permitted to us to put any one to death;
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that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled which he spoke, signifying what death he should die.
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Pilate therefore entered again into the praetorium and called Jesus, and said to him, Thou art the king of the Jews?
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Jesus answered [him], Dost thou say this of thyself, or have others said it to thee concerning me?
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Pilate answered, Am I a Jew? Thy nation and the chief priests have delivered thee up to me: what hast thou done?
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Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world; if my kingdom were of this world, my servants had fought that I might not be delivered up to the Jews; but now my kingdom is not from hence.
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Pilate therefore said to him, Thou art then a king? Jesus answered, Thou sayest [it], that I am a king. I have been born for this, and for this I have come into the world, that I might bear witness to the truth. Every one that is of the truth hears my voice.
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Pilate says to him, What is truth? And having said this he went out again to the Jews, and says to them, I find no fault whatever in him.
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But ye have a custom that I release [some] one to you at the passover; will ye therefore that I release unto you the king of the Jews?
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They cried therefore again all, saying, Not this [man], but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a robber.