John 18 – The Listening Plan

Devotional

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 18:37-38

It’s a shame that Pilate did not wait to hear Jesus’ answer to his simple question, “What is truth?” We can’t know for certain what Jesus would have said, but we know that the night before, He told His disciples, “I am the way, the truth and the life.” Perhaps that would have been part of His answer.