world (John 8:12), but even His enemies had not taken this in a political sense. Jesus had expressly said to Pilate that His kingdom was not of this world else His servants would fight to prevent His death (John 18:36). Peter had used the sword against Malchus to defend Jesus from arrest in the garden of Gethsemane, but Jesus made him put up his sword (John 18:10 f.). And yet Jesus boldly claimed to have power over Pilate (John 19:11) to the bewilderment of that official. The disciples who knew that
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