initiative; or have others told you about me?” Pilate answered, “Am I a Jew? Your own nation
and the chief priests have handed you over to me. What have you done?” Jesus answered,
“My kingship does not come from this world. If I were king like those of this world, my servants
would have fought to save me from being handed over to the Jews. But my kingship is not of
this world.” Pilate asked him, “So you are a king?” And Jesus answered, “Just as you say,
I am a king. For this I was born and for this I have come into the world, to bear witness to the
truth. Everyone who is on the side of truth hears my voice.”
READ: Jesus was brought to Pilate to be tried. Pilate asked Jesus if he was the king of the
Jews. Jesus answered Pilate with a question, asking if Pilate’s question was from him or what
others told him about Jesus. Pilate retorted by asking if he was a Jew since it was Jesus’ own
people who brought Jesus to Pilate. Pilate further asked Jesus what the latter had done that
he was handed over by his own people. Jesus said that his kingdom and kingship is not of this
world. Thus, Pilate asked Jesus if Jesus was a king. Jesus answered that it was Pilate who
said that Jesus was a king. Jesus added that he came into the world to bear witness to the
truth and that anyone who would hear the voice of Jesus remained on the side of truth.
REFLECT: Today is the Solemnity of Christ the King. We may ask ourselves now about our
relationship with Jesus. Have we already accepted Jesus as our king? If we do, the next
question we need to pose to ourselves is – are we growing in terms of exercising our inner
authority? Pilate was lacking in terms of inner authority, making it difficult for him to stand for
the truth. Do we exercise inner authority shared to us by Jesus, or are we not better than
Pilate? Can we stand for the truth?
PRAY: Let us pray that Jesus may truly reign over our lives.
ACT: Let us research on a particular historical fact which we think is now being distorted.
Let us share the result of our research to people we know.
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