‘What is truth?’ said Pilate. The irony of his question is that truth, ‘the truth’, stood before him. The tragedy of Pilate’s bewilderment was the complete absence of comprehension regarding the stupendous character of the Person whom he had delivered to be crucified. Pilate’s vacillation and his readiness to be directed by expediency rather than by justice show that he was not ‘of the truth’. ‘Everyone who is of the truth heareth my voice’, said Jesus (John 18:37).