John 18:33-40 - Pilate Questions Jesus
33 After that, Pilate went into the Government House again, and calling Jesus up, asked him: "Are you the King of the Jews?"
34 "Do you ask me that yourself?" replied Jesus, "or did others say it to you about me?"
35 "Do you take me for a Jew?" was Pilate's answer. "It is your own nation and the Chief Priests who have given you up to me. What have you done?"
36 "My kingly power," replied Jesus, "is not due to this world. If it had been so, my servants would be doing their utmost to prevent my being given up to the Jews; but my kingly power is not from the world."
37 "So you are a King after all!" exclaimed Pilate. "Yes, it is true I am a King," answered Jesus. "I was born for this, I have come into the world for this--to bear testimony to the Truth. Every one who is on the side of Truth listens to my voice."
38 "What is Truth?" exclaimed Pilate. After saying this, he went out to the Jews again, and said: "For my part, I find nothing with which he can be charged. 39 It is, however, the custom for me to grant you the release of one man at the Passover Festival. Do you wish for the release of the King of the Jews?"
40 "No, not this man," they shouted again, "but Barabbas!" This Barabbas was a robber.