Matthew Poole and continuators on John 18:38

38 ¶ Pilate saith unto him, What is truth ? And when he had said this, he went out again unto the Jews, and saith unto them , I find in him no fault at all .

Pilate (as prophane persons use to do) thought that our Saviour speaking of truth, and a Spiritual Kingdom, did but Cant, and therefore asking him, what he meant by truth, he never stays for an answer, but goes out again to the Iews, whom he had left without the door of the Judgment-hall, and

tells them he found no fault in him. Whatever the quality of the Kingdom was, of which our Saviour spake, he judged that his pretensions to it were not prejudicial to the Authority of the Emperor, nor the Tranquility of the State; and would have dismist him from their unjust prosecution.

Marginal references: Mat. 27.24. Luke 23.4.