World English Bible
"But you have a custom, that I should release someone to you at the Passover. Therefore do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?""
— John 18:39, World English Bible
“But ye have a custom, that I should release unto you one at the passover: will ye therefore that I release unto you the King of the Jews?”
“But ye have a custom, that I should release unto you one at the passover: will ye therefore that I release unto you the King of the Jews? ”
“But it is your custom that I release one prisoner for you at the Passover. So do you want me to release for you the king of the Jews?””
“But you have a custom that I should release one unto you at the Pasch. Will you, therefore, that I release unto you the king of the Jews?”
“But every year you make a request to me to let a prisoner go free at the Passover. Is it your desire that I let the King of the Jews go free?”
“But ye have a custom, that I should release unto you one at the passover: will ye therefore that I release unto you the King of the Jews?”
Jesus answered, "My Kingdom is not of this world. If my Kingdom were of this world, then my servants would fight, that I wouldn't be delivered to the Jews. But now my Kingdom is not from here."
Pilate therefore said to him, "Are you a king then?" Jesus answered, "You say that I am a king. For this reason I have been born, and for this reason I have come into the world, that I should testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice."
Pilate said to him, "What is truth?" When he had said this, he went out again to the Jews, and said to them, "I find no basis for a charge against him.
But you have a custom, that I should release someone to you at the Passover. Therefore do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?"
Then they all shouted again, saying, "Not this man, but Barabbas!" Now Barabbas was a robber.