What kind of king would do that?
Text: John 18:33-38 My mother had many sayings. I bet your parents did too. Money doesn’t grow on trees. It takes all kinds. One day you’ll thank me. If so-and-so jumped off a bridge, would you jump off too? Just because you’re standing in a garage, it doesn’t mean you’re a car. (That one was my favorite.) And then there was this one, "He would’t know the truth if it were standing in front of him." My mother said her mother always said that when she was talking about someone she wanted to warn her four daughters to avoid. I didn’t know until I was a grown up where that phrase came from. As Jesus stood before him in his headquarters Pilate asked him: What is truth? He didn’t recognize it standing in front of him. But we know, because Jesus has already told us, that he is the way and the truth and the life. Because, of course, Pilate, like many others, sometimes even his own disciples, didn’t recognize the kind of king Jesus was. As is often the case, Jesus co...
