But if it be a question of words and names, and of your law, look you to it; for I will be no judge of such matters.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
(g) He taught them that not such are the matters which crave a judicial sentence, but they do all things out of order. And he does not say, It is not my duty, but, I do not choose, that they may not trouble him again. Thus Pilate said in the case of Christ, Take ye Him, and judge him according to your law. John 18:31 But they were just like men drunken and mad. (d) And he drove them from the judgment-seat