MATTHEW 27:11 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 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.
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