John 18:39-40

J.B. Phillips New Testament

^38-39 To which Pilate retorted, “What is ‘truth’?” and went straight out again to the Jews and said: “I find nothing criminal about him at all. But I have an arrangement with you to set one prisoner free at Passover time. Do you wish me then to set free for you the ‘king of the Jews’?”

⁴⁰ At this, they shouted out again, “No, not this man, but Barabbas!” Barabbas was a bandit.