Pilate therefore entered again into the Praetorium, called Jesus, and said to him, “Are you the King of the Jews?”
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
John 18:33 in context
John 18:30–36
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They answered him, “If this man weren’t an evildoer, we wouldn’t have delivered him up to you.”
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Pilate therefore said to them, “Take him yourselves, and judge him according to your law.”
Therefore the Jews said to him, “It is illegal for us to put anyone to death,”
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that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spoke, signifying by what kind of death he should die.
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Pilate therefore entered again into the Praetorium, called Jesus, and said to him, “Are you the King of the Jews?”
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Jesus answered him, “Do you say this by yourself, or did others tell you about me?”
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Pilate answered, “I’m not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and the chief priests delivered you to me. What have you done?”
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Jesus answered, “My Kingdom is not of this world. If my Kingdom were of this world, then my servants would fight, that I wouldn’t be delivered to the Jews. But now my Kingdom is not from here.”
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