Charles Spurgeon Commentary Matthew 27:11

"Now Jesus stood before the governor: and the governor asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews? And Jesus said unto him, Thou sayest." — Matthew 27:11 (ASV)

Jesus did not look much like a king as He stood before Pilate. There was little enough of the robes of royalty about His simple apparel. Yet even in His humiliation there must have been so much of majesty that even the governor was prompted to ask, “Art thou the King of the Jews?”

There was no longer any reason why the King should conceal His true position, so He answered, “Thou sayest.” “It is even as thou sayest, I am the King of the Jews.” The Jews rejected their King, “He came unto his own, and his own received him not.” Yet was He their King although they refused to bow before His sceptre of grace and mercy.