Truth

"What is truth?"
The man/God was asked that question.
He did not answer.

Did Pilot know the answer; or had
he already condemned
Truth through years of practice?
He wouldn't recognize Truth if it
stood before him.

The man/God had spent years showing
others the Truth.
In the past,
He had written in the dirt.
Did he write certain Truths about others?
To show them how far they were from Truth?
To convict them of who they were/are?
That they might not condemn another?

Why did man/God not speak to Pilot?
If it were me, I might speak truth,
lie, or anything
to escape the embarrassments/shame/death
that threaten me.

Yes.
I do it all the time.
In what I do,
and what I fail to do.
Little "white" lies and...
others.

Did Jesus hold His tongue because it would
do no good?
Perhaps He could have
convicted Pilot with writing?
But, He obeyed His Father's will.
Silent He stood,
waiting for death.
Jesus would not use Truth,
even to set Himself free.

His gift for you and me.