Read Through the Bible in a Year 2018 Day 313: What is Truth?

Good morning, everyone!

Today I read John 16-18.

In today's reading, Jesus went to the Garden of Gethsemane, was arrested, accused by the Jewish elders, and taken before Pilate.

While before Pilate, He was questioned.

John 18:33-38a - Therefore Pilate entered again into the Praetorium, and summoned Jesus and said to Him, "Are You the King of the Jews?" Jesus answered, "Are you saying this on your own, or did others tell you about Me?" Pilate answered, "I am not a Jew, am I? Your own nation delivered You to me; what have You done?" Jesus answered, "My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, then My servants would be fighting so that I would not be handed over to the Jews; but as it is, My kingdom is not of this realm." Therefore, Pilate said to Him, "So You are a king?" Jesus answered, "You say correctly that I am a king. For this I have been born, and for this I have come into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice." Pilate said to Him, "What is truth?"

What is truth?

It has three definitions, according to Merriam-Webster.

1a(1): the body of real things, events, and facts : ACTUALITY

(2): the state of being the case : FACT

(3)often capitalized : a transcendent fundamental or spiritual reality

b: a judgment, proposition, or idea that is true or accepted as truetruths of thermodynamics

c: the body of true statements and propositions

2a: the property (as of a statement) of being in accord with fact or reality

bchiefly British : TRUE sense 2

c: fidelity to an original or to a standard

3a: sincerity in action, character, and utterance

barchaic : FIDELITY, CONSTANCY

Jesus is truth. He is real. He is fact.

God is truth. He is real. He is fact.

Jesus came to testify of God, and to tell the truth. And so He did.

And because He did, we now know the truth. We who believe know the truth about God.

And there are a lot of lies about Him out there.

And if we ask, like Pilate, "What is truth," then we can find the answer.

We can discover the truth about who God is through His word.

If you have been asking "What is truth," or "what is true," I encourage you to read the Bible, and discover the truth for yourself.

Don't be like Pilate, who never got an answer to his question because he didn't bother trying to understand.

I hope you'll join me tomorrow when I read John 19-21.