John 18:37 Commentary and Bible Study

Pilate was fully satisfied. This is a religious matter, he said to himself, this man poses no threat to Caesar, to Rome. ‘Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then?’ You have said rightly, says the Lord in effect. Our translators have it. ‘Thou sayest that I am a king.’ You have spoken rightly, we might say. ‘To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.’ ‘To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world.’ I was in Heaven, Pilate, and I came into this world to be a king, to be a deliverer, ‘that I should bear witness unto the truth.’ That means a lot of things: ‘I would explain the truth and I will suffer and die to be a Saviour in accordance with the truth. I will bear witness by teaching and action,’ is the sense. ‘Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice’, he says. Everybody in whose heart the truth is at work, the Spirit is at work, knows that the gospel is true, their attention is riveted; they are convinced and certain, and they must come to Christ.