36 Jesus replied, “My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would be fighting so that I would not be handed over to the Jews. But now my kingdom is not from here.” 37 Then Pilate said to him, “So then you are a king!” Jesus replied, “You say that I am a king. For this reason I was born, and for this reason I have come into the world: in order that I can testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears my voice.” 38 Pilate said to him, “What is truth?”

And when he[a] had said this, he went out again to the Jews and said to them, “I find no basis for an accusation against him.

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Footnotes

  1. John 18:38 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“had said”) which is understood as temporal