I charge you before God, who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate testified the good confession,
A good confession — The confession made by Christ before Pontius Pilate is, that he was Messiah the King; but that his kingdom was not of this world; and that hereafter he should be seen coming in the clouds of heaven to judge the quick and dead. See John 18:36-37; and Mark 14:61-62.