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Pilate therefore said to them: Take him you, and judge him according to your law. The Jews therefore said to him: It is not lawful for us to put any man to death.
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That the word of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he said, signifying what death he should die.
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Pilate therefore went into the hall again and called Jesus and said to him: Art thou the king of the Jews?
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Jesus answered: Sayest thou this thing of thyself, or have others told it thee of me?
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Pilate answered: Am I a Jew? Thy own 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 would certainly strive that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now my kingdom is not from hence.
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Pilate therefore said to him: Art thou a king then? Jesus answered: Thou sayest that I am a king. For this was I born, and for this came I into the world; that I should give testimony to the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.
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Pilate saith to him: What is truth? And when he said this, he went out again to the Jews and saith to them: I find no cause in him.
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But you have a custom that I should release one unto you at the Pasch. Will you, therefore, that I release unto you the king of the Jews?
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Then cried they all again, saying: Not this man, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a robber.