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Pilate said, "Do I look like a Jew? Your people and your high priests turned you over to me. What did you do?"
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"My kingdom," said Jesus, "doesn't consist of what you see around you. If it did, my followers would fight so that I wouldn't be handed over to the Jews. But I'm not that kind of king, not the world's kind of king."
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Then Pilate said, "So, are you a king or not?" Jesus answered, "You tell me. Because I am King, I was born and entered the world so that I could witness to the truth. Everyone who cares for truth, who has any feeling for the truth, recognizes my voice."
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Pilate said, "What is truth?" Then he went back out to the Jews and told them, "I find nothing wrong in this man."
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It's your custom that I pardon one prisoner at Passover. Do you want me to pardon the 'King of the Jews'?"
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They shouted back, "Not this one, but Barabbas!" Barabbas was a Jewish freedom fighter.