32. (This happened so that what Jesus had said about how he would die would come true.)
33. Then Pilate went back inside the palace. He called Jesus to him and asked, “Are you the king of the Jews?”
34. Jesus said, “Is that your own question, or did others tell you about me?”
35. Pilate answered, “I am not a Jew. It was your own people and their leading priests who brought you before me. What have you done wrong?”
36. Jesus said, “My kingdom does not belong to this world. If it belonged to this world, my servants would have fought to keep me from being given over to the Jewish leaders. But my kingdom is from another place.”
37. Pilate said, “So you are a king!”Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. That is true. I was born for this: to tell people about the truth. That is why I came into the world. And everyone who belongs to the truth listens to me.”
38. Pilate said, “What is truth?” After he said this, he went out to the Jews again. He said to them, “I can find nothing to charge against this man.
39. But it is your custom that I free one prisoner to you at the time of the Passover. Do you want me to free this ‘king of the Jews’?”
40. They shouted back, “No, not him! Let Barabbas go free!” (Barabbas was a robber.)