² Pilate asked Him, “Are You the King of the Jews?”

He answered him, “You have said so.”

³ The chief priests accused Him of many things, but He answered nothing. ⁴ So Pilate asked Him again, “Do You answer nothing? See how many things they testify against You.”

⁵ But Jesus still answered nothing, so that Pilate was astonished.

³ So Pilate asked Him, “Are You the King of the Jews?”

He answered, “You truly say so.”

⁴ Then Pilate said to the chief priests and to the people, “I find no fault in this Man.”

⁵ But they insisted, saying, “He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee to here.”

³³ Again Pilate entered the Praetorium, called Jesus, and said to Him, “Are You the King of the Jews?”

³⁴ Jesus answered him, “Are you speaking of your own accord, or did others tell you about Me?”

³⁵ Pilate answered, “Am I a Jew? Your own nation and the chief priests handed You over to me. What have You done?”

³⁶ Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, then My servants would fight, that I would not be handed over to the Jews. But now My kingdom is not from here.”

³⁷ Therefore Pilate said to Him, “Then are You a king?”

Jesus answered, “You say correctly that I am a king. For this reason I was born, and for this reason I came into the world, to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice.”

³⁸ Pilate said to Him, “What is truth?” When he had said this, he went out again to the Jews and said to them, “I find no guilt in Him at all.