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Chapter 3.
And Pilate, filled with rage, went outside of the
prætorium, and said to them: I take the sun to
witness1818
1818 See
Apost. Const., ii. 56. At last he who is going to
pronounce sentence of death upon the culprit raises his hands aloft,
and takes the sun to witness that he is innocent of his
blood. | that I find
no fault in this man. The Jews answered and said to the
procurator: Unless this man were an evil-doer, we should not have
delivered him to thee. And Pilate said, Do you take him, and
judge him according to your law. The Jews said to Pilate:
It is not lawful for us to put any one to death. Pilate
said: Has God said that you are not to put to death, but that I
am?
And Pilate went again into the prætorium, and
spoke to Jesus privately, and said to Him: Art thou the king of
the Jews? Jesus answered Pilate: Dost thou say this of
thyself, or have others said it to thee of me? Pilate answered
Jesus: Am I also a Jew?1819
1819 The full force of
the expression is: You do not mean to say that I too am a
Jew? | Thy
nation and the chief priests have given thee up to me. What hast
thou done? Jesus answered: My kingdom is not of this world;
for if my kingdom were of this world, my servants would fight in order
that I should not be given up to the Jews: but now my kingdom is
not from thence. Pilate said to Him: Art thou then a
king? Jesus answered him: Thou sayest that I am a
king. Because for this have I been born, and have I come, in
order that every one who is of the truth might hear my voice.
Pilate says to him: What is truth? Jesus says to him:
Truth is from heaven. Pilate says: Is truth not upon
earth? Jesus says to Pilate: Thou seest how those who speak
the truth are judged by those that have the power upon
earth.
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