“What is Truth?” This question spoken by Pontius Pilate in John 18:38 expresses concisely the great quandry and yearning of man. The poet in me longs to express truths as concisely and beautifully as possible. The historian in me wants to know the exact details of so many events that have long become blurred by time. The relative of a victim longs to know the whole truth of what occurred to their loved one even after their killer is convicted.

The tremendous irony of this question asked by Pilate is that he was standing face to face with the embodiment of truth at the moment he asked it. All of his questions, quandries and yearnings could be resolved by the man he mockingly asked “What is truth?” When Jesus stated he was “the truth” in John 14:6 he made one of the boldest proclamations that man has ever heard. In John 1:17 we read that “grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.” When I consider the man that defined the path that I am following I am comforted and emboldened to know that he is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.