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35 Pilate answered, “Am I a Jew? Your own nation and the chief priests have delivered You to me. What have You done?”
36 aJesus answered, b“My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, My servants would fight, so that I should not be delivered to the Jews; but now My kingdom is not from here.”  
37 Pilate therefore said to Him, “Are You a king then?” Jesus answered, “You say rightly that I am a king. For this cause I was born, and for this cause I have come into the world, athat I should bear bwitness to the truth. Everyone who cis of the truth dhears My voice.”  
38 Pilate said to Him, “What is truth?” And when he had said this, he went out again to the Jews, and said to them, a“I find no fault in Him at all.  

Taking the Place of Barabbas

39 a“But you have a custom that I should release someone to you at the Passover. Do you therefore want me to release to you the King of the Jews?”  
40 aThen they all cried again, saying, “Not this Man, but Barabbas!” bNow Barabbas was a robber. 
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John 18:37

Art thou a king then? (oukoun basileuv ei su). Compound of ouk and oun and is clearly ironical expecting an affirmative answer, only here in the N.T., and in LXX only in A text in II Kings 5:23.

Thou sayest that (su legeiv oti). In Matthew 27:11; Mark 15:2; Luke 23:3, su legeiv clearly means "yes," as su eipav (thou saidst) does in Matthew 26:64 (= "I am," egw eimi, in 41:62). Hence here oti had best be taken to mean "because": "Yes, because I am a king."

Have I been born (egw gegennhmai). Perfect passive indicative of gennaw. The Incarnation was for this purpose. Note repetition of eiv touto (for this purpose), explained by ina marturhsw th alhqeiai (that I may bear witness to the truth), ina with first aorist active subjunctive of marturew. Paul (I Timothy 6:13) alludes to this good confession when Christ bore witness (marturhsantov) before Pilate. Jesus bore such witness always (John 3:11, John 3:32; John 7:7; John 8:14; Revelation 1:5).




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing John 18:37:

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Luke 23:4
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John 13:21
John 16:28
John 18:28
1 Timothy 1:15
1 John 5:18
Revelation 3:20

 

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