John 18:30

World English Bible (2000)

They answered him, "If this man weren't an evildoer, we wouldn't have delivered him up to you."

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  • Mark 10:33 : 33 "Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem. The Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and the scribes. They will condemn him to death, and will deliver him to the Gentiles.
  • Mark 15:3 : 3 The chief priests accused him of many things.
  • Luke 20:19-26 : 19 The chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him that very hour, but they feared the people--for they knew he had spoken this parable against them. 20 They watched him, and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor. 21 They asked him, "Teacher, we know that you say and teach what is right, and aren't partial to anyone, but truly teach the way of God. 22 Is it lawful for us to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?" 23 But he perceived their craftiness, and said to them, "Why do you test me? 24 Show me a denarius. Whose image and inscription are on it?" They answered, "Caesar's." 25 He said to them, "Then give to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's." 26 They weren't able to trap him in his words before the people. They marveled at his answer, and were silent.
  • Luke 23:2-5 : 2 They began to accuse him, saying, "We found this man perverting the nation, forbidding paying taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king." 3 Pilate asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" He answered him, "So you say." 4 Pilate said to the chief priests and the multitudes, "I find no basis for a charge against this man." 5 But they insisted, saying, "He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee even to this place."
  • Luke 24:7 : 7 saying that the Son of Man must be delivered up into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again?"
  • John 19:12 : 12 At this, Pilate was seeking to release him, but the Jews cried out, saying, "If you release this man, you aren't Caesar's friend! Everyone who makes himself a king speaks against Caesar!"
  • Acts 3:13 : 13 The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Servant Jesus, whom you delivered up, and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had determined to release him.

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    29 Pilate therefore went out to them, and said, "What accusation do you bring against this man?"

  • John 18:31
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    31 Pilate therefore said to them, "Take him yourselves, and judge him according to your law." Therefore the Jews said to him, "It is not lawful for us to put anyone to death,"

  • John 18:34-35
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    34 Jesus answered him, "Do you say this by yourself, or did others tell you about me?"

    35 Pilate answered, "I'm not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and the chief priests delivered you to me. What have you done?"

  • John 18:38-40
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    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.

  • Mark 15:12-14
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    12 Pilate again asked them, "What then should I do to him whom you call the King of the Jews?"

    13 They cried out again, "Crucify him!"

    14 Pilate said to them, "Why, what evil has he done?" But they cried out exceedingly, "Crucify him!"

  • John 19:10-12
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    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?"

    11 Jesus answered, "You would have no power at all against me, unless it were given to you from above. Therefore he who delivered me to you has greater sin."

    12 At this, Pilate was seeking to release him, but the Jews cried out, saying, "If you release this man, you aren't Caesar's friend! Everyone who makes himself a king speaks against Caesar!"

  • John 19:6-7
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    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."

  • Luke 23:14
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    14 and said to them, "You brought this man to me as one that perverts the people, and see, I have examined him before you, and found no basis for a charge against this man concerning those things of which you accuse him.

  • Matt 27:20-23
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    20 Now the chief priests and the elders persuaded the multitudes to ask for Barabbas, and destroy Jesus.

    21 But the governor answered them, "Which of the two do you want me to release to you?" They said, "Barabbas!"

    22 Pilate said to them, "What then shall I do to Jesus, who is called Christ?" They all said to him, "Let him be crucified!"

    23 But the governor said, "Why? What evil has he done?" But they cried out exceedingly, saying, "Let him be crucified!"

  • Mark 15:9
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    9 Pilate answered them, saying, "Do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?"

  • Matt 26:66
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    66 What do you think?" They answered, "He is worthy of death!"

  • John 19:15-16
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    15 They cried out, "Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!" Pilate said to them, "Shall I crucify your King?" The chief priests answered, "We have no king but Caesar!"

    16 So then he delivered him to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus and led him away.

  • Luke 23:18
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    18 But they all cried out together, saying, "Away with this man! Release to us Barabbas!"--

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    2 Pilate asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" He answered, "So you say."

    3 The chief priests accused him of many things.

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    2 They began to accuse him, saying, "We found this man perverting the nation, forbidding paying taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king."

    3 Pilate asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" He answered him, "So you say."

    4 Pilate said to the chief priests and the multitudes, "I find no basis for a charge against this man."

  • Luke 23:21-22
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    21 but they shouted, saying, "Crucify! Crucify him!"

    22 He said to them the third time, "Why? What evil has this man done? I have found no capital crime in him. I will therefore chastise him and release him."

  • Luke 23:39
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    39 One of the criminals who was hanged insulted him, saying, "If you are the Christ, save yourself and us!"

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    4 saying, "I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood." But they said, "What is that to us? You see to it."

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    17 When therefore they were gathered together, Pilate said to them, "Whom do you want me to release to you? Barabbas, or Jesus, who is called Christ?"

    18 For he knew that because of envy they had delivered him up.

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    16 To whom I answered that it is not the custom of the Romans to give up any man to destruction, before the accused has met the accusers face to face, and has had opportunity to make his defense concerning the matter laid against him.

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    20 and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him up to be condemned to death, and crucified him.

  • Luke 23:24-25
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    24 Pilate decreed that what they asked for should be done.

    25 He released him who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder, for whom they asked, but he delivered Jesus up to their will.

  • Mark 15:6
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    6 Now at the feast he used to release to them one prisoner, whom they asked of him.

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    28 Though they found no cause for death, they still asked Pilate to have him killed.

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    11 Now Jesus stood before the governor: and the governor asked him, saying, "Are you the King of the Jews?" Jesus said to him, "So you say."

  • Matt 27:15
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    15 Now at the feast the governor was accustomed to release to the multitude one prisoner, whom they desired.

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    23 Jesus answered him, "If I have spoken evil, testify of the evil; but if well, why do you beat me?"

  • Acts 3:14
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    14 But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,

  • John 19:21
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    21 The chief priests of the Jews therefore said to Pilate, "Don't write, 'The King of the Jews,' but, 'he said, I am King of the Jews.'"

  • John 11:48
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    48 If we leave him alone like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation."