John 18:33
Douay-Rheims
Pilate therefore went into the hall again, and called Jesus, and said to him: Art thou the king of the Jews?
John Chrysostom
(Hom. lxxxiii. 4) If then He was a King by birth, He hath nothing which He hath not received from another. For this I came, that I should bear witness to the truth, i. e. that I should make all men believe it. We must observe how He shews His humility here: when they accused Him as a malefactor, He bore it in silence; but when He is asked of His kingdom, then He talks with Pilate, instructs him, and raises his mind to higher things. That I should bear witness to the truth, shews that He had no crafty purpose in what He did.
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A.D. 407 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 18:33-38
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