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John 19:8
“When therefore Pilate heard this saying, he was more afraid.”
Verse in context — John 19
6
When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him, they shouted, saying, "Crucify! Crucify!" Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves, and crucify him, for I find no basis for a charge against him.
7
The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.
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When therefore Pilate heard this saying, he was more afraid.
9
He entered into the Praetorium again, and said to Jesus, "Where are you from?" But Jesus gave him no answer.
10
Pilate therefore said to him, "Aren't you speaking to me? Don't you know that I have power to release you, and have power to crucify you?
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