. The life of our Saviour Jesus Christ : three hundred and sixty-five compositions from the four Gospels. A corner of the Haram. 38. Dicit ei Pilatus : Quid est Veritas?Et quum hoc dixisset, iterum exivitad Judacos et dicit eis : Ego nullaminvcnio in eo causam. 36. Jesus answered, My kingdom isnot of this world : if my kingdom wereof this world, then would my servantsfight, that I should not be deUvered tothe Jews : but now is my kingdom notfrom hence. 37. Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou aking then ? Je-sus answered,Thou sayestthat I am aking. To thisend was Iborn, and forthis causeca
. The life of our Saviour Jesus Christ : three hundred and sixty-five compositions from the four Gospels. A corner of the Haram. 38. Dicit ei Pilatus : Quid est Veritas?Et quum hoc dixisset, iterum exivitad Judacos et dicit eis : Ego nullaminvcnio in eo causam. 36. Jesus answered, My kingdom isnot of this world : if my kingdom wereof this world, then would my servantsfight, that I should not be deUvered tothe Jews : but now is my kingdom notfrom hence. 37. Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou aking then ? Je-sus answered,Thou sayestthat I am aking. To thisend was Iborn, and forthis causecame I intothe world,that I shouldbear witness•••• untothctruth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice. 38. Pilate saith unto him, What istruth? And when he had said this, hewent out again unto the Jews, and saithunto them, I hnd in him no fault at As av have already just stated, Jesus was clothed duringpart of His Passion with nothing more than the seamlessbinder-garment of a hrownish-red colour which had beenwoven by His mother. The early painters of (Christian sub-jects represented Jesus clothed in this garment, -which theymade of aviolet or reddish hue, icith the result that peoplecame to the conclusion that the Saviour was in the habit oficearing a red robe and. as everyone kneiv that He hadsome blue in His costume, for the corners of the tallithor sacrcil mantle which all Jeivs wore in the Synagogueand in the Temple had to be blue, it became customaryto supplement the red garment of Christ with a bluemantle. There can. however. be no doubt that this was notaccording to the ficts of the case : Jesus must hazY wornwhile rnhrs, such as those of the Lévites and of the various JESUS ALONE WITH PILATE 131 fuenihcrs of tJie priesthood. He, Who was as innocent as the very light itself, could not haveicorn red, ivhich amongst the
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