John 18:35

First Nations Version

“I am not from your tribes,” Spear of the Great Waters (Pilate) answered. “It is your own people and their head holy men who have turned you over to me. What have you done?”

Cross References

Acts 23:29

I learned that he was being accused of matters relating to their own tribal laws, but nothing deserving death or imprisonment.

Acts 21:38

“You speak the language of the Wisdom Seekers (Greeks),” he replied. “Then you are not the man from Black Land (Egypt) who some time ago caused an uprising and took four thousand assassins out into the desert wilderness.”

Acts 3:13

It was the one who walked with Father of Many Nations (Abraham), He Made Us Laugh (Isaac), and Heel Grabber (Jacob)—the Great Spirit of our ancestors, who has done this. “The Giver of Life has honored Creator Sets Free (Jesus), the one who served him and did all he asked. The same one you turned over to Spear of the Great Waters (Pilate), the governor from the People of Iron (Romans), to be put on trial for his life. The same one you turned your back on, in front of Spear of the Great Waters (Pilate), when he wanted to release him.

John 19:11

“The only power you have is what has been given you from above,” he answered. “The ones who turned me over to you carry the greater guilt.”

John 19:6

“Take a good long look at him!” The crowd stared at him in stunned silence. But then the head holy men and the lodge guards began to shout, “Death! Death on the cross!” “Then take him and kill him yourselves,” Spear of the Great Waters (Pilate) said to them. “I find no guilt in him!”

John 18:28

Creator Sets Free (Jesus) was taken from the house of Hollow in the Rock (Caiaphas) to the lodge of the governor of the People of Iron (Romans). The tribal leaders stayed outside, for they did not want to become ceremonially unclean by going inside. It was early in the morning, and many of them had not yet eaten the ceremonial meal of Passover.

John 18:34

“Is this your question,” Creator Sets Free (Jesus) asked, “or are you listening to others?”

John 18:36

“My way of ruling is a good road. It is not in the ways of this world. If it were, my followers would have fought to keep me from being captured.”