When Truth Costs Comfort

Pilate didn’t ask, “What is truth?” because he couldn’t find it. He asked it because

truth was inconvenient. Standing before him was Jesus—calm, unshaken—who said, “For this reason

I was born, and for this I came into the world: to testify to the truth.

Everyone on the side of truth listens to Me.” And Pilate’s response wasn’t surrender.

It was deflection: “What is truth?” Pilate knew Jesus was innocent. But admitting the

truth would cost him his position, his safety, his approval from the crowd.

So instead of choosing truth, he chose comfort. And that’s still how many reject

truth today. Not because it’s unclear— but because obeying it would require