²⁸Then they led Jesus from Caiphas to the governor’s hall. And it was morning: and they went not into the hall, that they might not be defiled, but that they might eat the pasch.

²⁹Pilate therefore went out to them, and said: What accusation bring you against this man?

³⁰They answered and said to him: If he were not a malefactor, we would not have delivered him up to thee.

³¹Pilate 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.

³²That the word of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he said, signifying what death he should die.

³³Pilate therefore went into the hall again and called Jesus and said to him: Art thou the king of the Jews?

³⁴Jesus answered: Sayest thou this thing of thyself, or have others told it thee of me?

³⁵Pilate answered: Am I a Jew? Thy own nation and the chief priests have delivered thee up to me. What hast thou done?

³⁶Jesus 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.

³⁷Pilate 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.

³⁸Pilate 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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John 18:37: Then Pilate said to him, “So you are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world—to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”

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