Is there absolute truth? That is a question mankind has struggled with since the beginning of humanity. The encounter between Satan and Eve in Genesis 3 posed the idea that God had not been completely truthful with them, and that they could live a better life by discovering their own truth. In our passage this Sunday, not only is Jesus on trial, but truth itself is on trial. Jesus’ trial shifts from the religious leaders to the secular justice of Rome’s Pilate. Pilate first asks the Jewish leaders what are the charges they have against Jesus: they have none. Then Pilate turns to Jesus and asks Him, “What is it you have done?” After describing the nature of His Kingdom, Jesus responds to Pilate’s question with the reason He came into the world. Jesus came to testify to the truth, the absolute truth as found in the Father.
When sin entered the world, it did many things against the character and nature of God, but none is more drastic than sin’s assault on the absolute truth that is found in the very nature of God. In His redemptive act, Jesus makes the point that who He is and what He does is a full revelation of the absolute truth of God. It was the passion of Christ to testify about the truth that took Him to the cross. Join me on Sunday as we look at the trial of Jesus and seek to answer the question, “What is Truth.”