Pilate asks the above question of Jesus in all four Gospel Accounts of our Lord’s Trial! (Matthew 27:11, Mark 15:2, Luke 23:3 and here in John 18:33) Someday, literally, Scripture teaches that Jesus will be indeed “KING OF THE JEWS!”

Jesus is called “King,” by His Own Father nonetheless, way back in Psalm 2:6 … “Yet have I set MY KING upon my holy hill of Zion.”

In class I alluded to the fact that Jesus “went about doing good.” The Bible basis for that fact is Acts 10:38 … “How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: WHO WENT ABOUT DOING GOOD, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.” (Peter preaching to the gentile Cornelius)

The three times Pilate declared Jesus “faultless” are in close proximity to each other in John’s Gospel. John 18:38 and John 19:4 and John 19:6 … the last two will be discussed in forthcoming lessons.

I love this pithy quote about the Cross … “THIS TERRIBLE WRONG LEADS TO THE GREATEST RIGHT IN ALL HISTORY!” (The Salvation of multitudes of lost souls!)

Our Text is the last time Jesus speaks of TRUTH in John’s Gospel. Reject it often enough, spurn Him repeatedly … and the result may be eternal damnation!

Better yet now, watch the class …

— Dr. Mike Bagwell