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John 18:39
But you have a custom, that I should release someone to you at the Passover. Therefore do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?"
John 18:39 · New Heart English Bible
John 18:39 in other translations
But ye have a custom, that I should release unto you one at the passover: will ye therefore that I release unto you the King of the Jews?
But it is your custom that I release to you one prisoner at the Passover. So then, do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?”
But you have a custom that I should release someone to you at the Passover. Therefore, do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?”
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In context
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 delivered to the Jewish leaders. But now my Kingdom is not from here."
37 Pilate therefore said to him, "Are you a king then?" Jesus answered, "You say that I am a king. For this reason I have been born, and for this reason I have come into the world, that I should testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice."
38 Pilate said to him, "What is truth?" When he had said this, he went out again to the Jewish leaders, and said to them, "I find no basis for a charge against him.
39 But you have a custom, that I should release someone to you at the Passover. Therefore do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?"
40 Then they shouted again, saying, "Not this man, but Barabbas!" Now Barabbas was a robber.
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