JOHN 18:37 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“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.
Church Fathers on John 18:37
Pilate, wishing to rescue Him from the hatred of the c Jews, protracted the trial a long time. Then Pilate entered into the judgment hall, and called Jesus.
i.e. Apart, because he had a strong suspicion that He was innocent, and thought he could examine Him more accurately, away from the crowd: and said to Him, Are you the King of the Jews?
Wherein Pilate shows that the Jews had charged Him with calling Himself King of the Jews.
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