John 19:12

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

From this `time' was Pilate seeking to release him, and the Jews were crying out, saying, `If this one thou mayest release, thou art not a friend of Caesar; every one making himself a king, doth speak against Caesar.'

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  • John 18:33-36 : 33 Pilate, therefore, entered into the praetorium again, and called Jesus, and said to him, `Thou art the King of the Jews?' 34 Jesus answered him, `From thyself dost thou say this? or did others say it to thee about me?' 35 Pilate answered, `Am I a Jew? thy nation, and the chief priests did deliver thee up to me; what didst thou?' 36 Jesus answered, `My kingdom is not of this world; if my kingdom were of this world, my officers had struggled that I might not be delivered up to Jews; but now my kingdom is not from hence.'
  • Acts 17:6-7 : 6 and not having found them, they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the city rulers, calling aloud -- `These, having put the world in commotion, are also here present, 7 whom Jason hath received; and these all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying another to be king -- Jesus.'
  • Acts 24:24-27 : 24 And after certain days, Felix having come with Drusilla his wife, being a Jewess, he sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith toward Christ, 25 and he reasoning concerning righteousness, and temperance, and the judgment that is about to be, Felix, having become afraid, answered, `For the present be going, and having got time, I will call for thee;' 26 and at the same time also hoping that money shall be given to him by Paul, that he may release him, therefore, also sending for him the oftener, he was conversing with him; 27 and two years having been fulfilled, Felix received a successor, Porcius Festus; Felix also willing to lay a favour on the Jews, left Paul bound.
  • Mark 6:16-26 : 16 And Herod having heard, said -- `He whom I did behead -- John -- this is he; he was raised out of the dead.' 17 For Herod himself, having sent forth, did lay hold on John, and bound him in the prison, because of Herodias the wife of Philip his brother, because he married her, 18 for John said to Herod -- `It is not lawful to thee to have the wife of thy brother;' 19 and Herodias was having a quarrel with him, and was willing to kill him, and was not able, 20 for Herod was fearing John, knowing him a man righteous and holy, and was keeping watch over him, and having heard him, was doing many things, and hearing him gladly. 21 And a seasonable day having come, when Herod on his birthday was making a supper to his great men, and to the chiefs of thousands, and to the first men of Galilee, 22 and the daughter of that Herodias having come in, and having danced, and having pleased Herod and those reclining (at meat) with him, the king said to the damsel, `Ask of me whatever thou wilt, and I will give to thee,' 23 and he sware to her -- `Whatever thou mayest ask me, I will give to thee -- unto the half of my kingdom.' 24 And she, having gone forth, said to her mother, `What shall I ask for myself?' and she said, `The head of John the Baptist;' 25 and having come in immediately with haste unto the king, she asked, saying, `I will that thou mayest give me presently, upon a plate, the head of John the Baptist.' 26 And the king -- made very sorrowful -- because of the oaths and of those reclining (at meat) with him, would not put her away,
  • Luke 23:2-5 : 2 and began to accuse him, saying, `This one we found perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying himself to be Christ a king.' 3 And Pilate questioned him, saying, `Thou art the king of the Jews?' and he answering him, said, `Thou dost say `it'.' 4 And Pilate said unto the chief priests, and the multitude, `I find no fault in this man;' 5 and they were the more urgent, saying -- `He doth stir up the people, teaching throughout the whole of Judea -- having begun from Galilee -- unto this place.'

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  • Mark 15:8-9
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    8And the multitude having cried out, began to ask for themselves as he was always doing to them,

    9and Pilate answered them, saying, `Will ye `that' I shall release to you the king of the Jews?'

  • John 18:37-40
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    37Pilate, therefore, said to him, `Art thou then a king?' Jesus answered, `Thou dost say `it'; because a king I am, I for this have been born, and for this I have come to the world, that I may testify to the truth; every one who is of the truth, doth hear my voice.'

    38Pilate saith to him, `What is truth?' and this having said, again he went forth unto the Jews, and saith to them, `I do find no fault in him;

    39and ye have a custom that I shall release to you one in the passover; will ye, therefore, `that' I shall release to you the king of the Jews?'

    40therefore they all cried out again, saying, `Not this one -- but Barabbas;' and Barabbas was a robber.

  • Mark 15:11-15
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    11and the chief priests did move the multitude, that he might rather release Barabbas to them.

    12And Pilate answering, again said to them, `What, then, will ye `that' I shall do to him whom ye call king of the Jews?'

    13and they again cried out, `Crucify him.'

    14And Pilate said to them, `Why -- what evil did he?' and they cried out the more vehemently, `Crucify him;'

    15and Pilate, wishing to content the multitude, released to them Barabbas, and delivered up Jesus -- having scourged `him' -- that he might be crucified.

  • John 19:13-15
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    13Pilate, therefore, having heard this word, brought Jesus without -- and he sat down upon the tribunal -- to a place called, `Pavement,' and in Hebrew, Gabbatha;

    14and it was the preparation of the passover, and as it were the sixth hour, and he saith to the Jews, `Lo, your king!'

    15and they cried out, `Take away, take away, crucify him;' Pilate saith to them, `Your king shall I crucify?' the chief priests answered, `We have no king except Caesar.'

  • Luke 23:17-21
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    17for it was necessary for him to release to them one at every feast,

    18and they cried out -- the whole multitude -- saying, `Away with this one, and release to us Barabbas,'

    19who had been, because of a certain sedition made in the city, and murder, cast into prison.

    20Pilate again then -- wishing to release Jesus -- called to them,

    21but they were calling out, saying, `Crucify, crucify him.'

  • John 19:4-11
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    4Pilate, therefore, again went forth without, and saith to them, `Lo, I do bring him to you without, that ye may know that in him I find no fault;'

    5Jesus, therefore, came forth without, bearing the thorny crown and the purple garment; and he saith to them, `Lo, the man!'

    6When, therefore, the chief priests and the officers did see him, they cried out, saying, `Crucify, crucify;' Pilate saith to them, `Take ye him -- ye, and crucify; for I find no fault in him;'

    7the Jews answered him, `We have a law, and according to our law he ought to die, for he made himself Son of God.'

    8When, therefore, Pilate heard this word, he was the more afraid,

    9and entered again to the praetorium, and saith to Jesus, `Whence art thou?' and Jesus gave him no answer.

    10Pilate, therefore, saith to him, `To me dost thou not speak? hast thou not known that I have authority to crucify thee, and I have authority to release thee?'

    11Jesus answered, `Thou wouldst have no authority against me, if it were not having been given thee from above; because of this, he who is delivering me up to thee hath greater sin.'

  • John 19:21
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    21The chief priests of the Jews said, therefore, to Pilate, `Write not -- The king of the Jews, but that one said, I am king of the Jews;'

  • Matt 27:17
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    17they therefore having been gathered together, Pilate said to them, `Whom will ye I shall release to you? Barabbas or Jesus who is called Christ?'

  • Luke 23:2-4
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    2and began to accuse him, saying, `This one we found perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying himself to be Christ a king.'

    3And Pilate questioned him, saying, `Thou art the king of the Jews?' and he answering him, said, `Thou dost say `it'.'

    4And Pilate said unto the chief priests, and the multitude, `I find no fault in this man;'

  • John 18:33-35
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    33Pilate, therefore, entered into the praetorium again, and called Jesus, and said to him, `Thou art the King of the Jews?'

    34Jesus answered him, `From thyself dost thou say this? or did others say it to thee about me?'

    35Pilate answered, `Am I a Jew? thy nation, and the chief priests did deliver thee up to me; what didst thou?'

  • Mark 15:6
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    6And at every feast he was releasing to them one prisoner, whomsoever they were asking;

  • Mark 15:2
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    2and Pilate questioned him, `Art thou the king of the Jews?' and he answering said to him, `Thou dost say `it'.'

  • John 18:29-31
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    29Pilate, therefore, went forth unto them, and said, `What accusation do ye bring against this man?'

    30they answered and said to him, `If he were not an evil doer, we had not delivered him to thee.'

    31Pilate, therefore, said to them, `Take ye him -- ye -- and according to your law judge him;' the Jews, therefore, said to him, `It is not lawful to us to put any one to death;'

  • Matt 27:20-23
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    20And the chief priests and the elders did persuade the multitudes that they might ask for themselves Barabbas, and might destroy Jesus;

    21and the governor answering said to them, `Which of the two will ye `that' I shall release to you?' And they said, `Barabbas.'

    22Pilate saith to them, `What then shall I do with Jesus who is called Christ?' They all say to him, `Let be crucified!'

    23And the governor said, `Why, what evil did he?' and they were crying out the more, saying, `Let be crucified.'

  • Matt 27:15
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    15And at the feast the governor had been accustomed to release one to the multitude, a prisoner, whom they willed,

  • Luke 23:25
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    25and he released him who because of sedition and murder hath been cast into the prison, whom they were asking, and Jesus he gave up to their will.

  • John 19:19
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    19And Pilate also wrote a title, and put `it' on the cross, and it was written, `Jesus the Nazarene, the king of the Jews;'

  • Luke 23:14
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    14said unto them, `Ye brought to me this man as perverting the people, and lo, I before you having examined, found in this man no fault in those things ye bring forward against him;

  • Mark 12:16
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    16and they brought, and he saith to them, `Whose `is' this image, and the inscription?' and they said to him, `Caesar's;'

  • Matt 27:11
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    11And Jesus stood before the governor, and the governor did question him, saying, `Art thou the king of the Jews!' And Jesus said to him, `Thou sayest.'