28 Therefore they lead Jesus from Caiaphas into the palace, and it was morning, and they themselves did not enter into the palace, in order that they might not be defiled, but in order that they might eat the Passover.
29 Therefore, Pilate went out to them and said, What accusation are you bringing against this man?
30 They answered and said to him, If this one was not an evildoer, we should not have given him up to you.
31 Therefore Pilate said to them, You, take him and judge him according to your law.
Therefore the Jews said to him, It is not legal for us to kill anyone.
32 (This happened in order that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spoke signifying by what
sort of death he was about to die.)
33 Therefore, Pilate entered again into the palace, and summoned Jesus and said to him, Are you the King of the Jews?
34 Jesus answered him,
Do you say this from yourself or did others say this to you concerning me?
35 Pilate answered, I am not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and the high-priests gave you to me. What have you done?
36 Jesus answered,
My kingdom is not from this world; if my kingdom was from this world, then my attendants would fight in order that I might not be given up to the Jews, but now my kingdom is not from here.
37 Therefore Pilate said to him, Therefore are you not a king?
Jesus answered,
You are saying that I am a king. I have been born to this end and I have come into the world to this end, in order that I might testify to the truth. Everyone who is from the truth hears my voice.
38 Pilate says to him, What is truth? And having said this, he went out again to the Jews and says to them, I am finding no crime in him.