John 18:33

THE MESSAGE

Pilate went back into the palace and called for Jesus. He said, "Are you the ‘King of the Jews'?"

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then Pilate went back into the headquarters, summoned Jesus, and said to him, “Are you the King of the Jews?”

King James Version (1611)
Then Pilate entred into the Iudgement hall againe, and called Iesus, and saide vnto him, Art thou the King of the Iewes?

King James Version
Then Pilate entered into the judgment hall again, and called Jesus, and said unto him, Art thou the King of the Jews?

English Standard Version
So Pilate entered his headquarters again and called Jesus and said to him, "Are you the King of the Jews?"

New American Standard Bible
Therefore Pilate entered the Praetorium again, and summoned Jesus and said to Him, "You are the King of the Jews?"

New Century Version
Then Pilate went back inside the palace and called Jesus to him and asked, "Are you the king of the Jews?"

Amplified Bible
So Pilate went into the Praetorium again, and called Jesus and asked Him, "Are You the King of the Jews?"

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Therefore Pilate entered again into the Praetorium, and summoned Jesus and said to Him, "Are You the King of the Jews?"

Legacy Standard Bible
Therefore Pilate entered again into the Praetorium, and summoned Jesus and said to Him, "Are You the King of the Jews?"

Berean Standard Bible
Pilate went back into the Praetorium, summoned Jesus, and asked Him, "Are You the King of the Jews?"

Contemporary English Version
Pilate then went back inside. He called Jesus over and asked, "Are you the king of the Jews?"

Complete Jewish Bible
So Pilate went back into the headquarters, called Yeshua and said to him, "Are you the king of the Jews?"

Darby Translation
Pilate therefore entered again into the praetorium and called Jesus, and said to him, Thou art the king of the Jews?

Easy-to-Read Version
Then Pilate went back inside the palace. He called for Jesus and asked him, "Are you the king of the Jews?"

Geneva Bible (1587)
So Pilate entred into the common hall againe, and called Iesus, and sayde vnto him, Art thou the king of the Iewes?

George Lamsa Translation
Pilate then entered into the praetorium, and called Jesus and said to him. Are you the King of the Jews?

Good News Translation
Pilate went back into the palace and called Jesus. "Are you the king of the Jews?" he asked him.

Lexham English Bible
Then Pilate entered again into the governor's residence and summoned Jesus and said to him, "Are you the king of the Jews?"

Literal Translation
Then Pilate again went into the praetorium and called Jesus, and said to Him, Are You the King of the Jews?

American Standard Version
Pilate therefore entered again into the Praetorium, and called Jesus, and said unto him, Art thou the King of the Jews?

Bible in Basic English
Then Pilate went back into the Praetorium and sent for Jesus and said to him, Are you the King of the Jews?

Hebrew Names Version
Pilate therefore entered again into the Praetorium, called Yeshua, and said to him, "Are you the King of the Yehudim?"

International Standard Version
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Etheridge Translation
But Pilatos entered the Praetorium, and called Jeshu, and said to him, Art thou the king of the Jihudoyee ?

Murdock Translation
And Pilate went into the Praetorium, and called Jesus, and said to him: Art thou the king of the Jews?

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then Pilate entred into the iudgement hall againe, and called Iesus, and sayde vnto hym: Art thou the kyng of the Iewes?

English Revised Version
Pilate therefore entered again into the palace, and called Jesus, and said unto him, Art thou the King of the Jews?

World English Bible
Pilate therefore entered again into the Praetorium, called Jesus, and said to him, "Are you the King of the Jews?"

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Then Pilate returned into the palace, and called Jesus, and said to him, Art thou the king of the Jews?

Weymouth's New Testament
Re-entering the Praetorium, therefore, Pilate called Jesus and asked Him, "Are *you* the King of the Jews?"

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor eftsoone Pilat entride in to the moot halle, and clepide Jhesu, and seide to hym, Art thou kyng of Jewis?

Update Bible Version
Pilate therefore entered again into the Praetorium, and called Jesus, and said to him, Are you the King of the Jews?

Webster's Bible Translation
Then Pilate entered into the judgment-hall again, and called Jesus, and said to him, Art thou the King of the Jews?

New English Translation
So Pilate went back into the governor's residence, summoned Jesus, and asked him, "Are you the king of the Jews?"

New King James Version
Then Pilate entered the Praetorium again, called Jesus, and said to Him, "Are You the King of the Jews?"

New Living Translation
Then Pilate went back into his headquarters and called for Jesus to be brought to him. "Are you the king of the Jews?" he asked him.

New Life Bible
Then Pilate went back into the court room. He called for Jesus and said to Him, "Are You the King of the Jews?"

New Revised Standard
Then Pilate entered the headquarters again, summoned Jesus, and asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?"

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Pilate, therefore, entered again into the judgment-hall; and addressed Jesus, and said unto him - Art, thou, the king of the Jews?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Pilate therefore went into the hall again and called Jesus and said to him: Art thou the king of the Jews?

Revised Standard Version
Pilate entered the praetorium again and called Jesus, and said to him, "Are you the King of the Jews?"

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Then Pylate entred into the iudgemet hall agayne and called Iesus and sayd vnto him: arte thou the kynge of ye Iewes?

Young's Literal Translation
Pilate, therefore, entered into the praetorium again, and called Jesus, and said to him, `Thou art the King of the Jews?'

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then entred Pilate in to the comon hall agayne, and called Iesus, & sayde vnto him: Art thou the kynge of the Iewes?

Mace New Testament (1729)
Then Pilate entred into the Pretorium, and addressing himself to Jesus, said to him, are not you the king of the Jews?

Simplified Cowboy Version
Pilate walked back inside to his office and ordered Jesus brought in. "Are you the king of the Jews?"

Contextual Overview

²⁸They led Jesus then from Caiaphas to the Roman governor's palace. It was early morning. They themselves didn't enter the palace because they didn't want to be disqualified from eating the Passover. So Pilate came out to them and spoke. "What charge do you bring against this man?" ³⁰ They said, "If he hadn't been doing something evil, do you think we'd be here bothering you?" ³¹Pilate said, "You take him. Judge him by your law." The Jews said, "We're not allowed to kill anyone." (This would confirm Jesus' word indicating the way he would die.) ³³ Pilate went back into the palace and called for Jesus. He said, "Are you the ‘King of the Jews'?" ³⁴ Jesus answered, "Are you saying this on your own, or did others tell you this about me?" ³⁵ Pilate said, "Do I look like a Jew? Your people and your high priests turned you over to me. What did you do?" ³⁶ "My kingdom," said Jesus, "doesn't consist of what you see around you. If it did, my followers would fight so that I wouldn't be handed over to the Jews. But I'm not that kind of king, not the world's kind of king." ³⁷ Then Pilate said, "So, are you a king or not?" Jesus answered, "You tell me. Because I am King, I was born and entered the world so that I could witness to the truth. Everyone who cares for truth, who has any feeling for the truth, recognizes my voice." ³⁸Pilate said, "What is truth?" Then he went back out to the Jews and told them, "I find nothing wrong in this man. It's your custom that I pardon one prisoner at Passover. Do you want me to pardon the ‘King of the Jews'?" ⁴⁰ They shouted back, "Not this one, but Barabbas!" Barabbas was a Jewish freedom fighter.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

and said: John 18:37, Matthew 27:11, Mark 15:2, Luke 23:3, Luke 23:4, 1 Timothy 6:13

the king: John 1:49, John 12:13, John 12:15, John 19:3, John 19:19-22, Psalms 2:6-12, Isaiah 9:6, Isaiah 9:7, Jeremiah 23:5, Zephaniah 3:15, Zechariah 9:9, Luke 19:38-40, Acts 2:34-36

Reciprocal: Matthew 27:27 - common hall John 18:28 - unto John 18:39 - I release John 19:12 - thou art Acts 7:1 - Are

Cross-References

Genesis 18:16
When the men got up to leave, they set off for Sodom. Abraham walked with them to say good-bye.

Genesis 18:22
The men set out for Sodom, but Abraham stood in God 's path, blocking his way.

Genesis 31:55
Jacob learned that Laban's sons were talking behind his back: "Jacob has used our father's wealth to make himself rich at our father's expense." At the same time, Jacob noticed that Laban had changed toward him. He wasn't treating him the same. That's when God said to Jacob, "Go back home where you were born. I'll go with you." So Jacob sent word for Rachel and Leah to meet him out in the field where his flocks were. He said, "I notice that your father has changed toward me; he doesn't treat me the same as before. But the God of my father hasn't changed; he's still with me. You know how hard I've worked for your father. Still, your father has cheated me over and over, changing my wages time and again. But God never let him really hurt me. If he said, ‘Your wages will consist of speckled animals' the whole flock would start having speckled lambs and kids. And if he said, ‘From now on your wages will be streaked animals' the whole flock would have streaked ones. Over and over God used your father's livestock to reward me. "Once, while the flocks were mating, I had a dream and saw the billy goats, all of them streaked, speckled, and mottled, mounting their mates. In the dream an angel of God called out to me, ‘Jacob!' "I said, ‘Yes?' "He said, ‘Watch closely. Notice that all the goats in the flock that are mating are streaked, speckled, and mottled. I know what Laban's been doing to you. I'm the God of Bethel where you consecrated a pillar and made a vow to me. Now be on your way, get out of this place, go home to your birthplace.'" Rachel and Leah said, "Has he treated us any better? Aren't we treated worse than outsiders? All he wanted was the money he got from selling us, and he's spent all that. Any wealth that God has seen fit to return to us from our father is justly ours and our children's. Go ahead. Do what God told you." Jacob did it. He put his children and his wives on camels and gathered all his livestock and everything he had gotten, everything acquired in Paddan Aram, to go back home to his father Isaac in the land of Canaan. Laban was off shearing sheep. Rachel stole her father's household gods. And Jacob had concealed his plans so well that Laban the Aramean had no idea what was going on—he was totally in the dark. Jacob got away with everything he had and was soon across the Euphrates headed for the hill country of Gilead. Three days later, Laban got the news: "Jacob's run off." Laban rounded up his relatives and chased after him. Seven days later they caught up with him in the hill country of Gilead. That night God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream and said, "Be careful what you do to Jacob, whether good or bad." When Laban reached him, Jacob's tents were pitched in the Gilead mountains; Laban pitched his tents there, too. "What do you mean," said Laban, "by keeping me in the dark and sneaking off, hauling my daughters off like prisoners of war? Why did you run off like a thief in the night? Why didn't you tell me? Why, I would have sent you off with a great celebration—music, timbrels, flutes! But you wouldn't permit me so much as a kiss for my daughters and grandchildren. It was a stupid thing for you to do. If I had a mind to, I could destroy you right now, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, ‘Be careful what you do to Jacob, whether good or bad.' I understand. You left because you were homesick. But why did you steal my household gods?" Jacob answered Laban, "I was afraid. I thought you would take your daughters away from me by brute force. But as far as your gods are concerned, if you find that anybody here has them, that person dies. With all of us watching, look around. If you find anything here that belongs to you, take it." Jacob didn't know that Rachel had stolen the gods. Laban went through Jacob's tent, Leah's tent, and the tents of the two maids but didn't find them. He went from Leah's tent to Rachel's. But Rachel had taken the household gods, put them inside a camel cushion, and was sitting on them. When Laban had gone through the tent, searching high and low without finding a thing, Rachel said to her father, "Don't think I'm being disrespectful, my master, that I can't stand before you, but I'm having my period." So even though he turned the place upside down in his search, he didn't find the household gods. Now it was Jacob's turn to get angry. He lit into Laban: "So what's my crime, what wrong have I done you that you badger me like this? You've ransacked the place. Have you turned up a single thing that's yours? Let's see it—display the evidence. Our two families can be the jury and decide between us. "In the twenty years I've worked for you, ewes and she-goats never miscarried. I never feasted on the rams from your flock. I never brought you a torn carcass killed by wild animals but that I paid for it out of my own pocket—actually, you made me pay whether it was my fault or not. I was out in all kinds of weather, from torrid heat to freezing cold, putting in many a sleepless night. For twenty years I've done this: I slaved away fourteen years for your two daughters and another six years for your flock and you changed my wages ten times. If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not stuck with me, you would have sent me off penniless. But God saw the fix I was in and how hard I had worked and last night rendered his verdict." Laban defended himself: "The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, the flock is my flock—everything you see is mine. But what can I do about my daughters or for the children they've had? So let's settle things between us, make a covenant—God will be the witness between us." Jacob took a stone and set it upright as a pillar. Jacob called his family around, "Get stones!" They gathered stones and heaped them up and then ate there beside the pile of stones. Laban named it in Aramaic, Yegar-sahadutha (Witness Monument); Jacob echoed the naming in Hebrew, Galeed (Witness Monument). Laban said, "This monument of stones will be a witness, beginning now, between you and me." (That's why it is called Galeed—Witness Monument.) It is also called Mizpah (Watchtower) because Laban said, " God keep watch between you and me when we are out of each other's sight. If you mistreat my daughters or take other wives when there's no one around to see you, God will see you and stand witness between us." Laban continued to Jacob, "This monument of stones and this stone pillar that I have set up is a witness, a witness that I won't cross this line to hurt you and you won't cross this line to hurt me. The God of Abraham and the God of Nahor (the God of their ancestor) will keep things straight between us." Jacob promised, swearing by the Fear, the God of his father Isaac. Then Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain and worshiped, calling in all his family members to the meal. They ate and slept that night on the mountain. Laban got up early the next morning, kissed his grandchildren and his daughters, blessed them, and then set off for home.

Genesis 32:26
The man said, "Let me go; it's daybreak." Jacob said, "I'm not letting you go 'til you bless me."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then Pilate entered into the judgment hall again,.... Where he went at first, but the Jews refusing to come in thither to him, he came out to them; and now they speaking out more plainly, that he was guilty of a crime deserving of death; as that he set up himself as a king, in opposition to Caesar, and taught the people not to pay tribute to him; he goes into the "praetorium" again, and called Jesus; beckoned, or sent for him; or ordered him to come in thither to him, that he might alone, and the more freely, converse with him; which Jesus did, paying no regard to the superstitious observances of the Jews:

and said unto him, art thou the king of the Jews? This he might say, from a rumour that was generally spread, that there was such a person to come, and was born; and by many it was thought, that Jesus was he; and particularly from the charge of the Jews against him, which though not here expressed, is elsewhere; see Luke 23:2. Wherefore Pilate was the more solicitous about the matter, on account of Caesar, and lest he should be charged with dilatoriness and negligence in this affair: some read these words not by way of question, but affirmation, "thou art the king of the Jews"; which method he might make use of, the more easily to get it out of him, whether he was or not: and to this reading, Christ's answer in the next verse seems best to agree.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Art thou the King of the Jews? - This was after they had accused him of perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, Luke 23:2-3.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 33. Art thou the king of the Jews? — St. Luke says, expressly, Luke 23:2, that when the Jews brought him to Pilate they began to accuse him as a rebel, who said he was king of the Jews, and forbade the people to pay tribute to Caesar. It was in consequence of this accusation that Pilate asked the question mentioned in the text.