The trial of Jesus before Pilate would endure for all time, as the greatest miscarriage of justice to ever afflict Mankind. GOD who emptied Himself and became man now stood humbly before Pilate to be judged by Man . He who at "The End Of Time" would judge all men now stood in Loving submission to Man.
Pilate asked Jesus, "Are you the king of the Jews?" Jesus answered, "Are you asking this on your own or did somebody tell you about ME ?" "You know I am not a Jew! " Pilate said. "Your own people and the chief priests have brought you to me. What have you done?" Jesus answered, "My kingdom does not belong to this world. If it did my followers would have fought to keep the Jewish leaders from handing me over to you. No, my kingdom does not belong to this world." "So you are a king," Pilate replied. "You say that I am a king," Jesus told him. "I was born into this world for this one purpose, to Testify to the Truth, and everyone who belongs to the Truth hears Me." Pilate asked Jesus, "What is truth?"
Pilate asked Jesus the question " What is truth" but Jesus did not reply. We ask ourselves why his silence? I believe the explanation proceeds along these lines. To ask a question is to imply some level of need , concern and care for the answer. The power of the answer to effect change in the one who asks the question is reflective of the depth of that need. When Pilate asked Jesus "What is truth" Jesus response was silence. His silence was not so much a non-answer to Pilate's question as it was his answer to Pilate's lack of any authentic need, concern or care for an answer. Every man has to be on constant guard in his own search for Truth less he become akin to Pilate. Perhaps blogging itself (if it prompts man to reflect on and question what he has previously accepted as truth ) has the potential of overcoming our flawed human propensity of taking for granted and assuming that our own understanding of Truth and Reality is the correct one. This brings to mind Socrates declaration of why he was wiser then other men. " They think they know what they do not know. I don't think I know what I do not know." Socrates self understanding of his own wisdom is the only sane way to proceed.
God did not become man for the sake of giving abstract answers to man's abstract questions. God became man in order to give birth to man's existential questions that would in turn give birth to man's existential answer, in man's actual living of a life, lived in union with the Truth that Jesus lived and testified to. A life lived in communion with the Image and Likeness of GOD within Him. The only "Begotten SON OF GOD" had come into the world to testify to the Truth of Man, through the Life He lived and the Words He spoke.
