SCRIPTURE COMMENTARY #543
Pilate therefore went into the hall again and called Jesus and said to him: "Art thou the king of the Jews?" Jesus answered: "Sayest thou this thing of thyself, or have others told it thee of me?" Pilate answered: "Am I a Jew? Thy own nation and the chief priests have delivered thee up to me. What hast thou done?" Jesus answered: "My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would certainly strive that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now my kingdom is not from hence." Pilate therefore said to him: "Art thou a king then?" Jesus answered: "Thou sayest that I am a king. For this was I born, and for this came I into the world; that I should give testimony to the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice." Pilate saith to him: "What is truth?" And when he said this, he went out again to the Jews and saith to them: "I find no cause in him. But you have a custom that I should release one unto you at the Pasch. Will you, therefore, that I release unto you the king of the Jews?" Then cried they all again, saying: "Not this man, but Barabbas." (John 18:33-40)
JESUS SUFFERED UNDESERVEDLY: The traitor Judas was not the only one to affirm his Lord's innocence. The Roman governor openly declared: "I find no cause in this Man;" neither could Herod discover any guilt in Jesus, although the chief priests and scribes "earnestly accused Him;" and not being able to condemn Him, he treated Him with frivolous contempt and "set Him at nought" as a harmless fool! The Eternal Father suffered His only-begotten Son to be ill-treated and insulted, but He did not suffer even a shadow of guilt to rest on the Most Holy.
(1899 Douay-Rheims Bible)
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