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 13:1Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God.
• John 3:27John answered, “A man can receive nothing, unless it has been given him from heaven.
• Acts 2:23him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;
• Dan 4:17The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones; to the intent that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will, and sets up over it the lowest of men.
• Acts 3:13The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Servant Jesus, whom you delivered up, and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had determined to release him.
• John 7:30They sought therefore to take him; but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.
• Jas 1:17Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.
• Dan 4:25that you shall be driven from men, and your dwelling shall be with the animals of the field, and you shall be made to eat grass as oxen, and shall be wet with the dew of the sky, and seven times shall pass over you; until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will.
• Matt 6:13Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.’
• Luke 12:47–48That servant, who knew his lord’s will, and didn’t prepare, nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes,
• Jas 4:17To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.
• Jer 27:5–8‘I have made the earth, the men and the animals that are on the surface of the earth, by my great power and by my outstretched arm; and I give it to whom it seems right to me.
• Acts 4:28to do whatever your hand and your council foreordained to happen.
• Dan 5:21and he was driven from the sons of men, and his heart was made like the animals’, and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys; he was fed with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the sky; until he knew that the Most High God rules in the kingdom of men, and that he sets up over it whomever he will.
• Gen 45:7–8God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.
• Ps 62:11God has spoken once; twice I have heard this, that power belongs to God.
• Matt 27:2and they bound him, and led him away, and delivered him up to Pontius Pilate, the governor.
• Rom 11:36For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things. To him be the glory for ever! Amen.
• Mark 14:44Now he who betrayed him had given them a sign, saying, “Whomever I will kiss, that is he. Seize him, and lead him away safely.”
• Luke 7:41–42“A certain lender had two debtors. The one owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty.
• Dan 4:32You shall be driven from men; and your dwelling shall be with the animals of the field. You shall be made to eat grass as oxen. Seven times shall pass over you, until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will.”
• Luke 22:53When I was with you in the temple daily, you didn’t stretch out your hands against me. But this is your hour, and the power of darkness.”
• Luke 10:11–14‘Even the dust from your city that clings to us, we wipe off against you. Nevertheless know this, that God’s Kingdom has come near to you.’
• Heb 6:4–8For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,
• John 18:3Judas then, having taken a detachment of soldiers and officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, came there with lanterns, torches, and weapons.
• John 9:41Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, ‘We see.’ Therefore your sin remains.
• John 11:49–50But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all,
• Dan 4:35All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and no one can stop his hand, or ask him, What are you doing?
• Lam 3:37Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn’t command it?
• Exod 9:14–16For this time I will send all my plagues against your heart, against your officials, and against your people; that 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 have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.
• Matt 26:65Then the high priest tore his clothing, saying, “He has spoken blasphemy! Why do we need any more witnesses? Behold, now you have heard his blasphemy.
• Ps 39:9I was mute. I didn’t open my mouth, because you did it.
• John 18:28–32They led Jesus therefore from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. It was early, and they themselves didn’t enter into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the Passover.
• 1 Chr 29:11Yours, Yahweh, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty! For all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, Yahweh, and you are exalted as head above all.

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