‘You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free’ - John 8:32
In the dim torchlight of a Roman praetorium, two millennia ago, a weary governor named Pontius Pilate stared into the eyes of a Galilean carpenter bound in chains.
Jesus of Nazareth stood accused, not of sedition exactly, but of something far more dangerous: claiming to embody truth itself.
Pilate, that cynical bureaucrat of empire, had just heard the prisoner declare, ‘Everyone who is of the truth listens to My voice’ (John 18:37).
And with a shrug that has echoed through history, Pilate fired back: ‘What is truth?’
Pilate washed his hands of the matter, literally and figuratively, sentencing the Prince of Peace to a cross.
But oh, what a question from Pilate.
WHAT IS TRUTH?
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