18:31. 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. 18:32. That the word of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he said, signifying what death he should die. 18:33. Pilate therefore went into the hall again and called Jesus and said to him: Art thou the king of the Jews? 18:34. Jesus answered: Sayest thou this thing of thyself, or have others told it thee of me? 18:35. Pilate answered: Am I a Jew? Thy own nation and the chief priests have delivered thee up to me. What hast thou done? 18:36. 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. 18:37. 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. 18:38. 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. 18:39. 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? 18:40. Then cried they all again, saying: Not this man, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a robber. John Chapter 19 The continuation of the history of the Passion of Christ. 19:1. Then therefore Pilate took Jesus and scourged him. 19:2. And the soldiers platting a crown of thorns, put it upon his head: and they put on him a purple garment. 19:3. And they came to him and said: Hail, king of the Jews. And they gave him blows. 19:4. Pilate therefore went forth again and saith to them: Behold, I bring him forth unto you, that you may know that I find no cause in him. 19:5. (Jesus therefore came forth, bearing the crown of thorns and the purple garment.) And he saith to them: Behold the Man. 19:6. When the chief priests, therefore, and the servants had seen him, they cried out, saying: Crucify him, Crucify him. Pilate saith to them: Take him you, and crucify him: for I find no cause in him. 19:7. The Jews answered him: We have a law; and according to the law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God. 19:8. When Pilate therefore had heard this saying, he feared the more. 19:9. And he entered into the hall again; and he said to Jesus: Whence art thou? But Jesus gave him no answer. 19:10. Pilate therefore saith to him: Speakest thou not to me? Knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee, and I have power to release thee? 19:11. Jesus answered: Thou shouldst not have any power against me, unless it were given thee from above. Therefore, he that hath delivered me to thee hath the greater sin.