“What is True”
so readily resists being grasped.
Perhaps Truth
refuses to be decisively grasped
so that questions never cease.
Perhaps this is the Truth
that is more nearly True:
that sometimes we can learn more from curious questions
than from solid answers.

//”Quid est veritas?”
//Collette Kristevski, 4/3/2019

Pilate therefore said to Him, “Are You a king then?” Jesus answered, “You say rightly that I am a king. For this cause I was born, and for this cause I have come into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice.” Pilate said to Him, “What is truth?” And when he had said this, he went out again to the Jews, and said to them, “I find no fault in Him at all.

John 18:27-38

This is one of my favorite exchanges in Scripture. For quite a while I was on a spiritual journey, and my question was, like Pilate’s, “what is Truth?” There is speculation that Pilate’s question is actually one of jest and mockery of Jesus’ claim to be witness to the truth. Maybe it was. But I like to think that Pilate’s question was mainly a philosophical one or a curious one. What is truth? Jesus did not answer. Perhaps because Pilate did not stay long enough for the answer. Perhaps he didn’t want to know the answer. Or perhaps Jesus did not answer, and his non-answer WAS the answer. Either way, I think the question “what is truth?” or “what is true?” is crucial. What is Truth (capital T) to you? Is there such a thing?

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