John 19:11

Jesus tells Pilate his authority is only what God has granted, so the greater guilt lies with those who handed him over. He affirms God's sovereignty even in his trial.

Cross-references · 35

• Rom 13:1Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which is from God. The authorities that exist have been appointed by God.
• John 3:27John replied, “A man can receive only what is given him from heaven.
• Acts 2:23He was delivered up by God’s set plan and foreknowledge, and you, by the hands of the lawless, put Him to death by nailing Him to the cross.
• Dan 4:17This decision is the decree of the watchers, the verdict declared by the holy ones, so that the living will know that the Most High rules over the kingdom of mankind and gives it to whom He wishes, setting over it the lowliest of men.’
• Acts 3:13The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified His servant Jesus. You handed Him over and rejected Him before Pilate, even though he had decided to release Him.
• John 7:30So they tried to seize Him, but no one laid a hand on Him, because His hour had not yet come.
• Jas 1:17Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom there is no change or shifting shadow.
• Dan 4:25You will be driven away from mankind, and your dwelling will be with the beasts of the field. You will feed on grass like an ox and be drenched with the dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass you by, until you acknowledge that the Most High rules over the kingdom of mankind and gives it to whom He wishes.
• Matt 6:13And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’
• Luke 12:47–48That servant who knows his master’s will but does not get ready or follow his instructions will be beaten with many blows.
• Jas 4:17Anyone, then, who knows the right thing to do, yet fails to do it, is guilty of sin.
• Jer 27:5–8By My great power and outstretched arm, I made the earth and the men and beasts on the face of it, and I give it to whom I please.
• Acts 4:28They carried out what Your hand and will had decided beforehand would happen.
• Dan 5:21He was driven away from mankind, and his mind was like that of a beast. He lived with the wild donkeys and ate grass like an ox, and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven until he acknowledged that the Most High God rules over the kingdom of mankind, setting over it whom He wishes.
• Gen 45:7–8God sent me before you to preserve you as a remnant on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
• Ps 62:11God has spoken once; I have heard this twice: that power belongs to God,
• Matt 27:2They bound Him, led Him away, and handed Him over to Pilate the governor.
• Rom 11:36For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever! Amen.
• Mark 14:44Now the betrayer had arranged a signal with them: “The One I kiss is the man; arrest Him and lead Him away securely.”
• Luke 7:41–42“Two men were debtors to a certain moneylender. One owed him five hundred denarii, and the other fifty.
• Dan 4:32You will be driven away from mankind to live with the beasts of the field, and you will feed on grass like an ox. And seven times will pass you by, until you acknowledge that the Most High rules over the kingdom of mankind and gives it to whom He wishes.”
• Luke 22:53Every day I was with you in the temple courts, and you did not lay a hand on Me. But this hour belongs to you and to the power of darkness.”
• Luke 10:11–14‘Even the dust of your town that clings to our feet, we wipe off as a testimony against you. Yet be sure of this: The kingdom of God is near.’
• Heb 6:4–8It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit,
• John 18:3So Judas brought a band of soldiers and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees. They arrived at the garden carrying lanterns, torches, and weapons.
• John 9:41“If you were blind,” Jesus replied, “you would not be guilty of sin. But since you claim you can see, your guilt remains.”
• John 11:49–50But one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all!
• Dan 4:35All the peoples of the earth are counted as nothing, and He does as He pleases with the army of heaven and the peoples of the earth. There is no one who can restrain His hand or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’”
• Lam 3:37Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord has ordained it?
• Exod 9:14–16Otherwise, I will send all My plagues against you and your officials and your people, so you may know that there is no one like Me in all the earth.
• John 15:22–24If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. Now, however, they have no excuse for their sin.
• Matt 26:65At this, the high priest tore his clothes and declared, “He has blasphemed! Why do we need any more witnesses? Look, now you have heard the blasphemy.
• Ps 39:9I have become mute; I do not open my mouth because of what You have done.
• John 18:28–32Then they led Jesus away from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. By now it was early morning, and the Jews did not enter the Praetorium, to avoid being defiled and unable to eat the Passover.
• 1 Chr 29:11Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the splendor and the majesty, for everything in heaven and on earth belongs to You. Yours, O LORD, is the kingdom, and You are exalted as head over all.

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