called
Jesus, and said to him, Art thou the king of the Jews? (34)Jesus
answered him, Dost thou speak this from thyself, or did others speak to
thee concerning me? (35)Pilate answered, Am I a Jew? Thy own nation and
the chief priests have delivered thee to me: what hast thou done?
(36)Jesus replied, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom had
been of this world, then would my servants have struggled hard, that I
should not have been delivered up to the Jews: but now my kingdom is
not from hence. (37)Then said Pilate unto him. Art thou not a king
then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. For this end I was
born, and for this I came into the world, that I should be a witness
for the truth. Every one who is of the truth heareth my voice.
(38)Pilate saith unto him, What is truth? And having thus spoken, he
went out again unto the Jews and saith to them, I find no fault in him.
(39)But ye have a custom, that I should release to you one person at
the passover: will ye therefore that I release unto you the King of the
Jews? (40)Then again they all clamoured, saying, Not this man, but
Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a robber.

CHAP. XIX.

THEN Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him. (2)And the soldiers
having platted a crown of thorns, put it on his head, and they clothed
him in a purple robe, (3)and said, Hail, King of the Jews! and they
gave him slaps on the face with their hands. (4)Then again went Pilate
out, and said to them, Behold, I bring him out to you, that ye may know
that I find in him no fault at all. (5)Then came Jesus out, bearing the
thorny crown, and the purple robe. And he said to them, Behold the man!
(6)When the chief priests therefore and the officers saw him, they
cried vociferously, saying, Crucify him! crucify him! Pilate saith to
them, Take him yourselves, and crucify him: for I have not found in him
a fault. (7)The Jews replied to him, We have a law, and according to
our law he ought to die, because he hath made himself the Son of God.
(8)When Pilate then heard this saying, he was the more afraid: (9)and
entered into the praetorium again, and saith to Jesus, From whence art
thou? But Jesus gave him no answer. (10)Then saith Pilate to him, Dost
thou not speak to me? dost thou not know that I have power to crucify
thee, and that I have power to release thee? (11)Jesus answered, Thou
wouldest have had no authority over me, unless it had been given thee
from above: for this reason, he