Good Friday booklet 2021

 “Do you say this on your own or have others told you about me?” N Pilate answered, V “I am not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and the chief priests handed you over to me. What have you done?” N Jesus answered,  “My kingdom does not belong to this world. If my kingdom did belong to this world, my attendants would be fighting to keep me from being handed over to the Jews. But as it is, my kingdom is not here.” N So Pilate said to him, V “Then you are a king?” N Jesus answered,  “You say I am a king. For this I was born and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice.” N Pilate said to him, V “What is truth?” N When he had said this, he again went out to the Jews and said to them, V “I find no guilt in him. But you have a custom that I release one prisoner to you at Passover. Do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?” N They cried out again, [C] “Not this one but Barabbas!” N Now Barabbas was a revolutionary. Then Pilate took Jesus and had him scourged. And the soldiers wove a crown out of thorns and placed it on his head, and clothed him in a purple cloak, and they came to him and said, 4 4