John 18:31

Webster's Bible (1833)

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,"

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  • Gen 49:10 : 10 The scepter will not depart from Judah, Nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, Until he comes to whom it belongs. To him will the obedience of the peoples be.
  • Ezek 21:26-27 : 26 thus says the Lord Yahweh: Remove the turban, and take off the crown; this [shall be] no more the same; exalt that which is low, and abase that which is high. 27 I will overturn, overturn, overturn it: this also shall be no more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it [him].
  • Hos 3:4-5 : 4 For the children of Israel shall abide many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without sacred stone, and without ephod or idols. 5 Afterward the children of Israel shall return, and seek Yahweh their God, and David their king, and shall come with trembling to Yahweh and to his blessings in the last days.
  • John 19:6-7 : 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."
  • John 19:15 : 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!"
  • Acts 25:18-20 : 18 Concerning whom, when the accusers stood up, they brought no charge of such things as I supposed; 19 but had certain questions against him about their own religion, and about one Jesus, who was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive. 20 Being perplexed how to inquire concerning these things, I asked whether he was willing to go to Jerusalem and there be judged concerning these matters.

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  • John 19:6-8
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    6When 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."

    7The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God."

    8When therefore Pilate heard this saying, he was more afraid.

  • John 18:32-35
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    32that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spoke, signifying by what kind of death he should die.

    33Pilate therefore entered again into the Praetorium, called Jesus, and said to him, "Are you the King of the Jews?"

    34Jesus answered him, "Do you say this by yourself, or did others tell you about me?"

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

  • John 18:28-30
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    28They led Jesus therefore from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. It was early, and they themselves didn't enter into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the Passover.

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

    30They answered him, "If this man weren't an evildoer, we wouldn't have delivered him up to you."

  • John 18:38-39
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    38Pilate 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.

    39But 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?"

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

    13They cried out again, "Crucify him!"

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

  • John 19:10-16
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    10Pilate 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?"

    11Jesus 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."

    12At 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!"

    13When Pilate therefore heard these words, he brought Jesus out, and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called "The Pavement," but in Hebrew, "Gabbatha."

    14Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passover, at about the sixth hour.{noon} He said to the Jews, "Behold, your King!"

    15They 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!"

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

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

  • John 19:21
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    21The 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.'"

  • Mark 15:1-2
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    1Immediately in the morning the chief priests, with the elders and scribes, and the whole council, held a consultation, and bound Jesus, and carried him away, and delivered him up to Pilate.

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

  • Matt 27:22-23
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    22Pilate said to them, "What then shall I do to Jesus, who is called Christ?" They all said to him, "Let him be crucified!"

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

  • Acts 13:28
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    28Though they found no cause for death, they still asked Pilate to have him killed.

  • Luke 23:14-15
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    14and 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.

    15Neither has Herod, for I sent you to him, and see, nothing worthy of death has been done by him.

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

  • Acts 24:6
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    6He even tried to profane the temple, and we arrested him.{TR adds "We wanted to judge him according to our law,"}

  • Matt 27:2
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    2and they bound him, and led him away, and delivered him up to Pontius Pilate, the governor.

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

  • Luke 23:3-4
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    3Pilate asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" He answered him, "So you say."

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

  • Matt 27:17
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    17When 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?"

  • John 7:51
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    51"Does our law judge a man, unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?"

  • John 11:50
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    50nor do you consider that it is advantageous for us that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish."

  • Matt 27:11
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    11Now 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."

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

    22He 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."

  • Acts 25:16
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    16To 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.

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

  • John 19:4
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    4Then Pilate went out again, and said to them, "Behold, I bring him out to you, that you may know that I find no basis for a charge against him."

  • Luke 24:20
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    20and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him up to be condemned to death, and crucified him.

  • Matt 27:4
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    4saying, "I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood." But they said, "What is that to us? You see to it."

  • John 18:12
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    12So the detachment, the commanding officer, and the officers of the Jews, seized Jesus and bound him,

  • Mark 15:4
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    4Pilate again asked him, "Have you no answer? See how many things they testify against you!"