1710657 Pilate questions Jesus – Matthew 27:11b-14, Mark 15:2-5, Luke 23:3-7, John 18:33-38, Friday April 15 A.D. 29 Jerusalem
Pilate therefore entered again into the Praetorium, and called Jesus. Now Jesus stood before the governor: and the governor asked him, saying, “Are you the King of the Jews?” And Jesus answered and said to him, “Do you say this by yourself, or did others tell you about me?” Pilate answered and said, “I am not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and the chief priests delivered you to me. What have you done?” And Jesus answered and said, “My Kingdom is not of this world. If my Kingdom were of this world, then my servants would fight, that I would not be delivered to the Jews. But now my Kingdom is not from here.” Pilate therefore said to him, “Are you a king then?” And Jesus answered and said to him, “So you say that I am a king. For this reason I have been born, and for this reason I have come into the world, that I should testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.” Pilate said to him, “What is truth?” And when he had said this, he went out again to the Jews, and said to them, “I find no basis for a charge against him.”
And when he was accused by the chief priests and elders of many things, he said nothing. Then Pilate again asked and said to him, “Do you not hear how many things they testify against you? See how many things they testify against you! Have you no answer?” But Jesus gave him no further answer, not even one word, so that Pilate, the governor marveled greatly. And Pilate said to the chief priests and the multitudes, “I find no basis for a charge against this man.” But they insisted, saying, “He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee even to this place.” But when Pilate heard it, he asked if the man was a Galilean. And when he found out that he was in Herod’s jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, who was also in Jerusalem during those days.
