mnt - John:18:28-40

mnt@John:18:28 @ From the house of Caiaphas they took Jesus to the Praetorium, and it was dawn. They themselves would not enter the Praetorium, in order that they might not be ceremonially defiled, but might be able to eat the Passover.

mnt@John:18:29 @ So Pilate came outside to them and asked, "What charge do you bring against this man?"

mnt@John:18:30 @ In reply they said, "If he had not been a criminal, we should not have handed him over you."

mnt@John:18:31 @ "Take him yourselves," answered Pilate, "and judge him according to your law."

mnt@John:18:32 @ The Jews answered him, "We are not allowed to put anyone to death" (that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled in which he predicted the kind of death he was to die).

mnt@John:18:33 @ So Pilate went into the Praetorium again, and summoned Jesus. "Are you the King of the Jews?" he said.

mnt@John:18:34 @ Jesus answered, "Are you saying this of your own accord, or did others say it to you about me?"

mnt@John:18:35 @ "I am not a Jew, am I?" replied Pilate; "It is your own nation and the high priests who have handed you over to me. What have you done?"

mnt@John:18:36 @ Jesus answered him. "My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants have fought hard that I should not be handed the Jews; but in reality my kingdom is not of such origins."

mnt@John:18:37 @ "You are a king, then? You!" said Pilate. "You say truly that I am a king." answered Jesus, "for this purpose I was born, and to this end came I into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Every man who is of the truth listens to my voice."

mnt@John:18:38 @ Pilate said to him, "What is truth?" As he said this, he went outside again to the Jews and said to them.

mnt@John:18:39 @ "I find no crime in this man. Now it is a custom of yours that I release one prisoner to you at the time of the Passover feast. Do you wish me to release to you the King of the Jews?"

mnt@John:18:40 @ Then they all shouted again. "No, not him! Barabbas!" Now Barabbas was a robber.