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John - ch 18 v 21 - 40
- Why asketh thou me? ask them who have heard what I have spoken unto them: behold they know what things I have said.
- And when he had said these things, one of the servants standing by, gave Jesus a blow, saying: Answerest thou the high priest so?
- Jesus answered him: If I have spoken evil, give testimony of the evil; but if well, why strikest thou me?
- And Annas sent him bound to Caiphas the high priest.
- And Simon Peter was standing, and warming himself. They said therefore to him: Art not thou also one of his disciples? He denied it, and said: I am not.
- One of the servants of the high priest (a kinsman to him whose ear Peter cut off) saith to him: Did I not see thee in the garden with him?
- Again therefore Peter denied; and immediately the cock crew.
- Then 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.
- Pilate therefore went out to them, and said: What accusation bring you against this man?
- They answered, and said to him: If he were not a malefactor, we would not have delivered him up to thee.
- Pilate 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;
- That the word of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he said, signifying what death he should die.
- Pilate therefore went into the hall again, and called Jesus, and said to him: Art thou the king of the Jews?
- Jesus answered: Sayest thou this thing of thyself, or have others told it thee of me?
- Pilate answered: Am I a Jew? Thy own nation, and the chief priests, have delivered thee up to me: what hast thou done?
- Jesus 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.
- Pilate 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.
- Pilate 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.
- But you have a custom that I should release one unto you at the pasch: will you, therefore, that I release unto you the king of the Jews?
- Then cried they all again, saying: Not this man, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a robber.
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