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Day 41 of 47 going through John's gospel - more info at https://www.severnvineyard.org/time-space-jesus

What could happen if you take time and make space with Jesus today? This ten-minute podcast is part reading, part music, and part silence, all designed to help you create a space to picture and feel the scene with Jesus in it. You can use this space in lots of ways, including meditation, prayer, re-reading the passage or thinking about what it means for you today.

Today's reflection: What does it mean to you that Jesus is a leader whose purpose is to bear witness to the truth?

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Then the high priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and about his teaching.

Jesus answered him, \u201cI have spoken openly to the world. I always taught in the synagogues and in the temple, where the Jews always meet. I said nothing in secret. Why question me? Ask those who have heard me what I said to them. Look, they know what I said.\u201d

When he had said this, one of the officers present slapped Jesus with his hand, saying, \u201cIs that how you answer the high priest?\u201d

Jesus answered him, \u201cIf I have spoken wrongly, make a statement about what was wrong; but if I have spoken correctly, why did you strike me?\u201d

Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas, the high priest.

Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. So they said to him, \u201cYou aren\u2019t also one of his disciples, are you?\u201d

He denied it and said, \u201cI am not.\u201d

One of the servants of the high priest, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, said, \u201cDidn\u2019t I see you in the garden with him?\u201d

Peter denied it again, and immediately a rooster crowed.

Then the Jewish leaders took Jesus from Caiaphas to the Praetorium, the Roman Governor\u2019s palace. It was early, and they didn\u2019t enter the Praetorium themselves, to avoid becoming ceremonially unclean \u2013 they wanted to be able to eat the Passover. So Pilate went out to them and said, \u201cWhat charge are you bringing against this man?\u201d

They answered him, \u201cIf this man weren\u2019t an evildoer, we wouldn\u2019t have delivered him to you.\u201d

So Pilate said to them, \u201cTake him yourselves, and judge him according to your law.\u201d

The Jews said to him, \u201cIt is illegal for us to put anyone to death,\u201d This fulfilled the word of Jesus, which he spoke, signifying the kind of death he was about to die.

So Pilate went back into the Praetorium, called Jesus, and said to him, \u201cAre you the King of the Jews?\u201d

Jesus answered him, \u201cDo you say this by yourself, or did others tell you about me?\u201d

Pilate answered, \u201cI\u2019m not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and the chief priests delivered you to me. What have you done?\u201d

Jesus answered, \u201cMy Kingdom is not of this world. If my Kingdom were of this world, then my servants would fight, that I wouldn\u2019t be delivered to the Jews. But now my Kingdom is from a different place.\u201d

So Pilate said to him, \u201cYou are a king then?\u201d

Jesus answered, \u201cYou say that I am a king. I was born for this, and came into the world for this, to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice.\u201d

Pilate said to him, \u201cWhat is truth?\u201d

After saying this, he went out again to the Jews, and said to them, \u201cI find no basis for a charge against him. But you have a custom that I should release someone to you at the Passover. So, do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?\u201d

Then they all shouted back, \u201cNot this man, but Barabbas!\u201d Now Barabbas was an insurrectionist.