John 18:34 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Our Saviour neither affirms nor denies: though we are bound, whenever we speak, to speak the truth, yet we are not bound at all times to speak the whole truth. Our Saviour desireth to be satisfied from Pilate, whether he asked him as a private person for his own satisfaction, or as a judge, having received any such accusation against him? For if he asked him as a judge, he was bound to call them to the proof of what they had charged him with.

John 18:34

34 Jesus answered him,Sayest thou this thing of thyself, or did others tell it thee of me?