My Kingdom Is Not of This World
33 ch. 19:9So Pilate entered his headquarters again and called Jesus and said to him, [ch. 19:12]"Are you the King of the Jews?" 34 Jesus answered, "Do you say this of your own accord, or did others say it to you about me?"35 Pilate answered, "Am I a Jew? Your own nation and the chief priests have delivered you over to me. What have you done?" 36 Jesus answered, [ch. 6:15;Dan. 2:44;7:14,27;Luke 17:21] "My kingdom ch. 8:23;[ch. 15:19;17:14,16;1 John 2:16;4:5] is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, [Matt. 26:53] my servants would have been fighting, that ch. 19:16I might not be delivered over to the Jews. But my kingdom is not from the world."37 Then Pilate said to him, "So you are a king?" Jesus answered, See Luke 22:70"You say that I am a king. [ch. 12:27;Rom. 14:9] For this purpose I was born and for this purpose ch. 16:28I have come into the world—ch. 3:11,32;5:31;8:13,14,18to bear witness to the truth. 1 John 4:6;[ch. 8:47] Everyone who is 1 John 2:21;3:19of the truth ch. 10:16,27listens to my voice."38 Pilate said to him, "What is truth?"
After he had said this, ch. 19:4he went back outside to the Jews and told them, ch. 19:4,6;See Luke 23:4"I find no guilt in him.