<p>18:38 <em>Pilate said to him: What is truth? And when he had said this, he went out again to the Jews, and said to them: I find no crime in him</em>- The famous question &quot;What is truth?&quot; is another example of how phrases are used in the gospel records which as it were jump off the page and confront all hearers or readers. We all must ask this question, and visually, we can perceive that the Lord standing in front of such a questioner was Himself the answer. For He is presented in John as &quot;the truth&quot;. The implication could be that Pilate perceived this, for his rhetorical question is immediately followed by his conviction that there was &quot;no crime in him&quot;. The conscienceless Pilate would have had no problem in agreeing to execute a troublemaker; for he is recorded as ordering the murder or random people for no good reason at all. But here he sees no crime in the Lord and is careful not to behave like this. Clearly, his conscience had been touched.</p>