John 18:28-40

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Jesus Before Pilate^(A)

²⁸Then the Jewish leaders took Jesus from Caiaphas to the palace of the Roman governor.^(B) By now it was early morning, and to avoid ceremonial uncleanness they did not enter the palace,^(C) because they wanted to be able to eat the Passover.^(D) ²⁹So Pilate came out to them and asked, “What charges are you bringing against this man?”

³⁰“If he were not a criminal,” they replied, “we would not have handed him over to you.”

³¹Pilate said, “Take him yourselves and judge him by your own law.”

“But we have no right to execute anyone,” they objected. ³²This took place to fulfill what Jesus had said about the kind of death he was going to die.^(E)

³³Pilate then went back inside the palace,^(F) summoned Jesus and asked him, “Are you the king of the Jews?”^(G)

³⁴“Is that your own idea,” Jesus asked, “or did others talk to you about me?”

³⁵“Am I a Jew?” Pilate replied. “Your own people and chief priests handed you over to me. What is it you have done?”

³⁶Jesus said, “My kingdom^(H) is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jewish leaders.^(I) But now my kingdom is from another place.”^(J)

³⁷“You are a king, then!” said Pilate.

Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. In fact, the reason I was born and came into the world is to testify to the truth.^(K) Everyone on the side of truth listens to me.”^(L)

³⁸“What is truth?” retorted Pilate. With this he went out again to the Jews gathered there and said, “I find no basis for a charge against him.^(M) ³⁹But it is your custom for me to release to you one prisoner at the time of the Passover. Do you want me to release ‘the king of the Jews’?”

⁴⁰They shouted back, “No, not him! Give us Barabbas!” Now Barabbas had taken part in an uprising.^(N)

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Job 35

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35 Then Elihu said:

²“Do you think this is just?
You say, ‘I am in the right,^(A) not God.’^(B)
³Yet you ask him, ‘What profit is it to me,^[a]
and what do I gain by not sinning?’^(C)

⁴“I would like to reply to you
    and to your friends with you.
⁵Look up at the heavens^(D) and see;
    gaze at the clouds so high above you.^(E)
⁶If you sin, how does that affect him?
    If your sins are many, what does that do to him?^(F)
⁷If you are righteous, what do you give to him,^(G)
    or what does he receive^(H) from your hand?^(I)
⁸Your wickedness only affects humans like yourself,^(J)
    and your righteousness only other people.^(K)

⁹“People cry out^(L) under a load of oppression;^(M)
    they plead for relief from the arm of the powerful.^(N)
¹⁰But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker,^(O)
    who gives songs^(P) in the night,^(Q)
¹¹who teaches^(R) us^(S) more than he teaches^[b] the beasts of the earth
    and makes us wiser than^[c] the birds in the sky?’
¹²He does not answer^(T) when people cry out
    because of the arrogance^(U) of the wicked.^(V)
¹³Indeed, God does not listen to their empty plea;
    the Almighty pays no attention to it.^(W)
¹⁴How much less, then, will he listen
    when you say that you do not see him,^(X)
that your case^(Y) is before him
    and you must wait for him,^(Z)
¹⁵and further, that his anger never punishes^(AA)
    and he does not take the least notice of wickedness.^[d]^(AB)
¹⁶So Job opens his mouth with empty talk;^(AC)
    without knowledge he multiplies words.”^(AD)

Footnotes

Job 35:3 Or you
Job 35:11 Or night, / ¹¹who teaches us by
Job 35:11 Or us wise by
Job 35:15 Symmachus, Theodotion and Vulgate; the meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.