37 Pilate then said unto him, Art thou a King then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a King: for this cause am I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth: everyone that is of the truth, heareth my voice.

38 [a]Pilate said unto him, [b]What is truth? And when he had said that, he went out again unto the Jews, and said unto them, I find in him no cause at all.

39 (A)But you have a custom that I should deliver you one loose at the Passover: will ye then that I loose unto you the King of the Jews?

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Footnotes

  1. John 18:38 It was requisite that Christ should be pronounced innocent, but notwithstanding (in that that he took upon him our person) was to be condemned as a most wicked man.
  2. John 18:38 He speaketh this disdainfully and scoffingly, and not by way of asking a question.

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