before Pilate pitted truth against power, and in the end the latter was no match for the former. The “power of truth” is infinitely greater than the “truth of power.” Hence Jesus gives hope to those who are powerless but who represent the truth. The essay concludes with a penetrating story told by Václav Havel, writer and long-time dissident and later president of the Czech Republic, that takes its inspiration from the portrayal of truth in John’s Gospel. Albert Mohler’s “What Is Truth? Truth and Contemporary