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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