Matthew Poole and continuators on John 18:34

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

Our Saviour neither affirmeth nor denieth: tho we be bound when ever 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 Iudge, having received any such accusation against him? For if he asked him as a Iudge, he was bound to call them to the proof of what they had charged him with