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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?”
Verse in context — John 18
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 Jews, 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 all shouted again, saying, "Not this man, but Barabbas!" Now Barabbas was a robber.
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