Bible Society of South Africa

Season after Pentecost: Twenty-Seventh Sunday after Pentecost

Gospel

33Pilate went back into the palace and called Jesus. “Are you the King of the Jews?” he asked him.

34Jesus answered, “Does this question come from you or have others told you about me?”

35Pilate replied, “Do you think I am a Jew? It was your own people and the chief priests who handed you over to me. What have you done?”

36Jesus said, “My kingdom does not belong to this world; if my kingdom belonged to this world, my followers would fight to keep me from being handed over to the Jewish authorities. No, my kingdom does not belong here!”

37So Pilate asked him, “Are you a king, then?”

Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. I was born and came into the world for this one purpose, to speak about the truth. Whoever belongs to the truth listens to me.”

John 18:33-37GNBOpen in Bible reader
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