Pilate then went back inside the palace, summoned Jesus and asked him, "Are you the king of the Jews?" "Is that your own idea," Jesus asked, "or did others talk to you about me?" "Am I a Jew?" Pilate replied. "It was your people and your chief priests who handed you over to me. What is it you have done?" Jesus said, "My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place." "You are a king, then!" said Pilate. Jesus answered, "You are right in saying I am a king. In fact, for this reason I was born, and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me." (John 18: 33-37)

The Greek reads, "My kingdom is not of this kosmos." This is different from world, if by world we mean this planet. The Greeks would be more likely to use ge for our planet.

Kosmos is a much broader term and concept. It could refer to the physical universe or to the system by which reality is organized.

Is Jesus saying his kingdom is not of the created universe? Given his prior comments this seems very unlikely.

Further, Jesus is quoted as saying, Nun de o basilea o emov ou eimi enteuqen or "At present though my reign is not to be of this place."

Three hundred-fifty years before Jesus Aristotle described the kosmos as having neither beginning nor end, but existing of a constantly changing terrestial sphere and a much larger and unchanging celestial sphere. This is almost certainly how Pilate would have understood kosmos.

Is this is how we are to understand Jesus?

Above is Jesus before Pilate by Duccio.