Pilate asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” He answered him, “So you say.”
Parallel translations
- KJV And Pilate asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews? And he answered him and said, Thou sayest it.
- BSB So Pilate asked Him, “Are You the King of the Jews?” “You have said so,” Jesus replied.
- NKJV Then Pilate asked Him, saying, “Are You the King of the Jews?” He answered him and said, “ It is as you say.”
- NASB Now Pilate asked Him, saying, “So You are the King of the Jews?” And He answered him and said, “It is as you say.”
- NLT So Pilate asked him, “Are you the king of the Jews?” Jesus replied, “You have said it.”
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- John 1:49Nathanael answered him, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are King of Israel!”
- 1 Tim 6:13I command you before God, who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate testified the good confession,
- Luke 22:70They all said, “Are you then the Son of God?” He said to them, “You say it, because I am.”
- Luke 1:32–33He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father, David,
- Mark 15:2Pilate asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” He answered, “So you say.”
- Mark 15:32Let the Christ, the King of Israel, now come down from the cross, that we may see and believe him.” Those who were crucified with him also insulted him.
- Luke 23:38An inscription was also written over him in letters of Greek, Latin, and Hebrew: “THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.”
- Mark 15:18They began to salute him, “Hail, King of the Jews!”
- Matt 27:11Now Jesus stood before the governor: and the governor asked him, saying, “Are you the King of the Jews?” Jesus said to him, “So you say.”
- John 19:3They kept saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and they kept slapping him.
- Luke 19:38–40saying, “Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven, and glory in the highest!”
- John 18:33–37Pilate therefore entered again into the Praetorium, called Jesus, and said to him, “Are you the King of the Jews?”
- John 19:19–21Pilate wrote a title also, and put it on the cross. There was written, “JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS.”
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