John 18:28-40
Jesus Before Pilate
28 Then the Jewish leaders took Jesus from Caiaphas to the palace of the Roman governor. By now it was early morning, and to avoid ceremonial uncleanness they did not enter the palace, because they wanted to be able to eat the Passover. 29 So Pilate came out to them and asked, “What charges are you bringing against this man?”
30 “If he were not a criminal,” they replied, “we would not have handed him over to you.”
31 Pilate said, “Take him yourselves and judge him by your own law.”
“But we have no right to execute anyone,” they objected. 32 This took place to fulfill what Jesus had said about the kind of death he was going to die.
33 Pilate then went back inside the palace, summoned Jesus and asked him, “Are you the king of the Jews?”
34 “Is that your own idea,” Jesus asked, “or did others talk to you about me?”
35 “Am I a Jew?” Pilate replied. “Your own people and chief priests handed you over to me. What is it you have done?”
36 Jesus said, “My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jewish leaders. But now my kingdom is from another place.”
37 “You are a king, then!” said Pilate.
Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. In fact, the reason I was born and came into the world is to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me.”
38 “What is truth?” retorted Pilate. With this he went out again to the Jews gathered there and said, “I find no basis for a charge against him. 39 But it is your custom for me to release to you one prisoner at the time of the Passover. Do you want me to release ‘the king of the Jews’?”
40 They shouted back, “No, not him! Give us Barabbas!” Now Barabbas had taken part in an uprising.
John 14:6-7
Jesus Says He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life
6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7 If you really know me, you will know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.”
Professor and author Peter Kreeft wrote, “God gives us not only the truth but also the ability to believe it; not only the new thing to see but also the new eye to see it with.”...
And I believe that the eye we have to see God and His Son with is our faith...Faith gives us the ability to believe in the Absolute Truth...So, if one believe this, then God gives us the ability to believe and to reason what is true...And He gives us the choice to have faith and to believe in and see this Light of Truth...
Pilate ask the Great Question, "What is Truth?"...From the way I read Jesus meeting Pilate and their discourse, I do not believe that Jesus made Pilate very happy...But Pilate could tell there is something different about Him, and said he could find no guilt in Jesus...He found no basis in charging Him with any crime...And he actually wanted to release Jesus...
Pilate did not believe in Jesus...Because Truth was standing right in front of him, and he could not see...Pilate lacked faith...There is this Great Connection with Jesus and the Absolute Truth and there is also this Great Connection with Jesus and Faith...We cannot believe in something when we think it is untrue...Therefore, what we believe in, is our Truth...And we live our lives accordingly to the Way we believe in our Truths...And I believe that is one of the reasons Jesus tells us that He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life...And our faith helps us believe this...I believe that in God's Kingdom faith and Truth are very much alike...