Jesus talks to Pilate about...
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Jesus talks to Pilate about the truth. Pilate, very much a gentile or as we would call ourselves these days, a Westerner, asks, "What is truth?" We should seek the truth, but the question Pilate should have asked Jesus was, "Are you truthful?" We want to know if persons are truthful, trustworthy? Jesus clearly fills all our need there.
It is not always so however with others. A man tells of having a friend stay at his house and he made the mistake of telling this man where money was stashed. When it was gone in the morning, the man confronted the thief. Rather than admit to theft the thief did a good acting job of saying that when he was in the Korean conflict that he never stole from his dead buddies lying around him. He was so good that the man felt guilty about questioning him and apologized. Later it became known that the thief had never been in Korea. He eventually was sent to prison for writing bad checks.
We have heard many lies from Saddam Hussein. We know something about Saddam when we learn that his son Uday, 27, has as his most notable achievement the beating to death of a presidential bodyguard with a club. One senses that Saddam Hussein has experienced paranoia but is almost a stranger to truth.
--Richardson
It is not always so however with others. A man tells of having a friend stay at his house and he made the mistake of telling this man where money was stashed. When it was gone in the morning, the man confronted the thief. Rather than admit to theft the thief did a good acting job of saying that when he was in the Korean conflict that he never stole from his dead buddies lying around him. He was so good that the man felt guilty about questioning him and apologized. Later it became known that the thief had never been in Korea. He eventually was sent to prison for writing bad checks.
We have heard many lies from Saddam Hussein. We know something about Saddam when we learn that his son Uday, 27, has as his most notable achievement the beating to death of a presidential bodyguard with a club. One senses that Saddam Hussein has experienced paranoia but is almost a stranger to truth.
--Richardson
