JOHN 18:37 — KING JAMES VERSION 1
“Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.”
Pilate asked him, 'So you are a king?' Jesus answered, 'You say that I am a king. For this I was born, and for this I have come into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth hears my voice.' — Pilate's "So you are a king?" extracts an affirmation: Jesus acknowledges kingship while redefining it. His mission—incarnation and presence—aims at witnessing to truth (alētheia), reality as God's perspective reveals it. "Everyone who belongs to the truth" (pās ho ōn ek tēs aletheias) identifies truth's hearers as those already aligned with God's purposes.
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