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He entered into the Praetorium again, and said to Jesus, “Where are you from?” But Jesus gave him no answer.
John 19:9 · World English Bible
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  • KJV And went again into the judgment hall, and saith unto Jesus, Whence art thou? But Jesus gave him no answer.
  • BSB and he went back into the Praetorium. “Where are You from?” he asked. But Jesus gave no answer.
  • NKJV and went again into the Praetorium, and said to Jesus, “Where are You from?” But Jesus gave him no answer.
  • NASB and he entered the Praetorium again and *said to Jesus, “Where are You from?” But Jesus gave him no answer.
  • NLT He took Jesus back into the headquarters again and asked him, “Where are you from?” But Jesus gave no answer.

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Cross-references · 12

  • John 18:33Pilate therefore entered again into the Praetorium, called Jesus, and said to him, “Are you the King of the Jews?”
  • Isa 53:7He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn’t open his mouth. As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he didn’t open his mouth.
  • John 8:14Jesus answered them, “Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from, and where I am going; but you don’t know where I came from, or where I am going.
  • John 9:29–30We know that God has spoken to Moses. But as for this man, we don’t know where he comes from.”
  • Mark 15:3–5The chief priests accused him of many things.
  • Phil 1:28and in nothing frightened by the adversaries, which is for them a proof of destruction, but to you of salvation, and that from God.
  • Ps 38:13–15But I, as a deaf man, don’t hear. I am as a mute man who doesn’t open his mouth.
  • Matt 26:63But Jesus held his peace. The high priest answered him, “I adjure you by the living God, that you tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God.”
  • Judg 13:6Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, “A man of God came to me, and his face was like the face of the angel of God, very awesome. I didn’t ask him where he was from, neither did he tell me his name;
  • Acts 8:32–33Now the passage of the Scripture which he was reading was this, “He was led as a sheep to the slaughter. As a lamb before his shearer is silent, so he doesn’t open his mouth.
  • Matt 27:12–14When he was accused by the chief priests and elders, he answered nothing.
  • John 18:37Pilate 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.”

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