John 18:37-38

My Kingdom Is Not of This World

37 Then Pilate said to him, "So you are a king?" Jesus answered, f "You say that I am a king. g For this purpose I was born and for this purpose h I have come into the world - i to bear witness to the truth. j Everyone who is k of the truth l listens to my voice."

38 Pilate said to him, "What is truth?" After he had said this, m he went back outside to the Jews and told them, n "I find no guilt in him.

  1. Cross References
    Luke 22:70
    So they all said, "Are you the Son of God, then?" And he said to them, "You say that I am.
  2. Cross References
    John 12:27
    Now is my soul troubled. And what shall I say? 'Father, save me from this hour'? But for this purpose I have come to this hour.
    Romans 14:9
    For to this end Christ died and lived again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.
  3. Cross References
    John 16:28
    I came from the Father and have come into the world, and now I am leaving the world and going to the Father.
  4. Cross References
    John 3:11
    Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know, and bear witness to what we have seen, but you do not receive our testimony.
    John 3:32
    He bears witness to what he has seen and heard, yet no one receives his testimony.
    John 5:31
    If I alone bear witness about myself, my testimony is not deemed true.
    John 8:13 - 14
    So the Pharisees said to him, "You are bearing witness about yourself; your testimony is not true.
    John 8:18
    I am the one who bears witness about myself, and the Father who sent me bears witness about me.
  5. Cross References
    1 John 4:6
    We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
    John 8:47
    Whoever is of God hears the words of God. The reason why you do not hear them is that you are not of God.
  6. Cross References
    1 John 2:21
    I write to you, not because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.
    1 John 3:19
    By this we shall know that we are of the truth and reassure our heart before him.
  7. Cross References
    John 10:16
    And I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd.
    John 10:27
    My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
  8. Cross References
    John 19:4
    Pilate went out again and said to them, "See, I am bringing him out to you that you may know that I find no guilt in him.
  9. Cross References
    John 19:4
    Pilate went out again and said to them, "See, I am bringing him out to you that you may know that I find no guilt in him.
    John 19:6
    When the chief priests and the officers saw him, they cried out, "Crucify him, crucify him!" Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves and crucify him, for I find no guilt in him.
    Luke 23:4
    Then Pilate said to the chief priests and the crowds, "I find no guilt in this man.
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