34 Jesus replied, "Is this your own question, or did others tell you about me?"
35 "Am I a Jew?" Pilate asked. "Your own people and their leading priests brought you here. Why? What have you done?"
36 Then Jesus answered, "I am not an earthly king. If I were, my followers would have fought when I was arrested by the Jewish leaders. But my Kingdom is not of this world."
37 Pilate replied, "You are a king then?" "You say that I am a king, and you are right," Jesus said. "I was born for that purpose. And I came to bring truth to the world. All who love the truth recognize that what I say is true."
38 "What is truth?" Pilate asked. Then he went out again to the people and told them, "He is not guilty of any crime.
39 But you have a custom of asking me to release someone from prison each year at Passover. So if you want me to, I'll release the King of the Jews."
40 But they shouted back, "No! Not this man, but Barabbas!" (Barabbas was a criminal.)
Read John 19
