John 19:8
6 As soon as the chief priests and officers saw Him, they shouted, “Crucify Him! Crucify Him!” “You take Him and crucify Him,” Pilate replied, “for I find no basis for a charge against Him.”
7 “We have a law,” answered the Jews, “and according to that law He must die, because He declared Himself to be the Son of God.”
When Pilate heard this statement, he was even more afraid,
9 and he went back into the Praetorium. “Where are You from?” he asked. But Jesus gave no answer.
10 So Pilate said to Him, “Do You refuse to speak to me? Do You not know that I have authority to release You and authority to crucify You?”
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- When Pilate heard this statement, he was even more afraid,
- KJV
- When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he was the more afraid;
- WEB
- When therefore Pilate heard this saying, he was more afraid.
- ASV
- When Pilate therefore heard this saying, he was the more afraid;
- DARBY
- When Pilate therefore heard this word, he was the rather afraid,
- BLB
- Therefore when Pilate heard this word, he was even more afraid.
- ÅB
- Da nå Pilatus hørte dette ord, ble han enda mere redd,
- OTB
- Da Pilatus hørte dette, ble han enda mer redd.
- B1930
- Da nu Pilatus hørte dette ord, blev han ennu mere redd,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
John 19:13
When Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus out and sat on the judgment seat at a place called the Stone Pavement, which in Hebrew is Gabbatha.
Read in contextActs 14:11–19
When the crowds saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices in the Lycaonian language: “The gods have come down to us in human form!”
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