MATTHEW 27:11 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And Jesus stood before the governor: and the governor asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews? And Jesus said unto him, Thou sayest.”
Now Jesus stood before the governor, and the governor asked him: are you the King of the Jews? Jesus said: you have said so. The Roman trial: Pilate's question — are you the King of the Jews — is the political equivalent of the high priest's are you the Christ, the Son of God. The you have said so is the same affirmative-but-distancing answer. The King of the Jews is Pilate's political framing of the messianic claim.
Church Fathers on Matthew 27:11
Matthew, having finished his digression concerning the traitor Judas, returns to the course of his narrative saying, 'Jesus stood before the governor.'
Mark how He that is ordained by His Father to be the Judge of the whole creation, humbled Himself, and was content to stand before the judge of the land of Judaea, and to be asked by Pilate either in mockery or doubt, 'Art thou the King of the Jews?'
Pilate asked Christ that which His enemies were continually casting in His teeth, for because they knew that Pilate cared not for matters of their Law, they had recourse to a public charge.
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