36. Respondit Iesus: Regnum 36. Jesus answered: My kingdom meum non est de hoc mundo: si is not of this world. If my ex hoc mundo esset regnum kingdom were of this world, my meum, ministri mei utique servants would certainly decertarent ut non traderer strive that I should not be Iudaeis: Nunc autem regnum delivered to the Jews: but now meum non est hinc. my kingdom is not from hence. 36. In response to Pilate’s question: “What hast thou done?” Jesus proceeds to explain that His is not that mighty temporal kingdom for which the Jews had hoped, and which the Romans might well fear; if it were, His followers would surely have striven that He should not be delivered to the Jews; but in truth it was not a temporal kingdom. *My kingdom is not from hence*; _i.e._ is not _of this world_, not a temporal kingdom. _In_ this world it was, and is; but _of_ this world it is not. See xvii. 15, 16. 37. Dixit itaque et Pilatus: 37. Pilate therefore said to Ergo rex es tu? Respondit him: Art thou a king then? Iesus: Tu dicis quia rex sum Jesus answered: Thou sayest ego. Ego in hoc natus sum, et that I am a king. For this was ad hoc veni in mundum, ut I born, and for this came I testimonium perhibeam into the world: that I should veritati: omnis qui est ex give testimony to the truth. veritate, audit vocem meam. Every one that is of the truth, heareth my voice. 37. *Art thou a king then?* Pilate asked; to which Jesus replied: “Thou sayest it” (Matt., Mark, Luke); or, as here, “Thou sayest that I am a king,”(119) meaning thou sayest truly, what is the fact. That this is the sense of the phrase, see Matt. xxvi. 64, and compare with Mark xiv. 61. Then, having made this admission, Jesus at once proceeds to point out the spiritual character of the kingdom which He had come to establish. That kingdom is His Church, which was established, not amid the clash of arms or din of battle, but by the preaching of the truth, and to which all belong, whether Jew or Roman, who hear the truth. 38. Dicit et Pilatus: Quid est 38. Pilate saith to him: What Veritas? Et cum hoc dixisset, is truth? And when he said iterum exivit ad Iudaeos, et this he went out again to the dicit eis: Ego nullam invenio Jews, and saith to them: I in eo causam. find no cause in him. 38. At the mention of “the truth,” Pilate asks: *What is truth?* (ἀλήθεια, without the article). The question was not asked for information, for Pilate went out without waiting for an answer, but impatiently or sneeringly, as if he said: “Yes, but what _is_ truth?” Then Pilate went out again to the Jews, and told them that he could find in Jesus no reason for condemning Him.