John 18:33-40

My Kingdom Is Not of This World

33 ¹So Pilate entered his headquarters again and called Jesus and said to him, ²"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, ³"My kingdom ⁴is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, ⁵my servants would have been fighting, that ⁶I 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, ⁷"You say that I am a king. ⁸For this purpose I was born and for this purpose ⁹I have come into the world--¹⁰to bear witness to the truth. ¹¹Everyone who is ¹²of the truth ¹³listens to my voice."

38 Pilate said to him, "What is truth?"After he had said this, ¹⁴he went back outside to the Jews and told them, ¹⁵"I find no guilt in him.

39 ¹⁶But 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, ¹⁷"Not this man, but Barabbas!" Now Barabbas was a robber.^[a]

Cross References

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

Footnotes

• [a]. Or an insurrectionist