Then Pilate went out again, and said to them, “Behold, I bring him out to you, that you may know that I find no basis for a charge against him.”
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
John 19:4 in context
John 19:1–7
1
So Pilate then took Jesus and flogged him.
2
The soldiers twisted thorns into a crown and put it on his head, and dressed him in a purple garment.
3
They kept saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and they kept slapping him.
4
Selected verse
Then Pilate went out again, and said to them, “Behold, I bring him out to you, that you may know that I find no basis for a charge against him.”
5
Jesus therefore came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple garment. Pilate said to them, “Behold, the man!”
6
When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him, they shouted, saying, “Crucify! Crucify!”
Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves and crucify him, for I find no basis for a charge against him.”
7
The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.”
Continue with John 19
Read the complete chapter in World English Bible Updated.
Open John 19