John 18:37

And so Pilate said to him, Then art thou a king? Jesus answered, Thou sayest, that I am a king. To this thing I am born, and to this I came into the world, to bear witnessing to truth (or to testify to the truth). Each [man] that is of (the) truth, heareth my voice.

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

In The King James Version

Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.

In Context

36Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world; if my kingdom were of this world, my ministers would strive, that I should not be taken to the Jews; but now my kingdom is not here. (Jesus answered, My Kingdom is not of this world; if my Kingdom was of this world, my servants would fight, so that I would not be delivered, or handed over, to the Jews; but now my Kingdom is not here.)

38Pilate saith to him, What is truth? And when he had said this thing, again he went out to the Jews, and said to them, I find no cause (or crime worthy of death) in him, [or I find no cause against him], (or I find no case against him).

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Cross References

Isaiah 55:4Lo! I gave him a witness to peoples, a duke and a commander to folks. (Behold! I gave him as a witness to the peoples, a leader and a commander to the nations.)

Matthew 27:11And Jesus stood before the doomsman (or the judge); and the justice [or the president] asked him, and said, Art thou king of Jews? Jesus saith to him, Thou sayest (it). (And Jesus stood before the Governor; and the Governor asked him, and said, Art thou the King of the Jews? Jesus saith to him, Thou sayest it.)

Mark 15:2And Pilate asked him, Art thou king of Jews? (or Art thou the King of the Jews?) And Jesus answered, and said to him, Thou sayest.

Luke 23:3And Pilate asked him, and said, Art thou king of Jews? (or Art thou the King of the Jews?) And he answered, and said, Thou sayest.

John 7:17If any man will do his will, he shall know of the teaching, whether it be of God, or [whether] I speak of myself.

John 8:47He that is of God, heareth the words of God; therefore ye hear not, (or and so ye cannot hear, or and so ye will not listen), for ye be not of God.

Matthew Henry on John 18:29-40

Christ in the Judgment-Hall; Christ Arraigned before Pilate. 28 Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the passover. 29 Pilate then went out unto them, and said, What accusation bring ye against this man? 30 They answered and said unto him, If he were not a malefactor, we would not have delivered him up unto thee. 31 Then said Pilate unto them, Take ye him, and judge him… Read the whole commentary →

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