37. Then Pilate said to him, “So then you are a king!” Jesus replied, “You say that I am a king. For this reason I was born, and for this reason I have come into the world: in order that I can testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears my voice.”
38. Pilate said to him, “What is truth?” And when he had said this, he went out again to the Jews and said to them, “I find no basis for an accusation against him.
39. But it is your custom that I release for you one prisoner at the Passover. So do you want me to release for you the king of the Jews?”
40. Then they shouted again, saying, “Not this man, but Barabbas!” (Now Barabbas was a revolutionary.)