What Is Truth?

It is the Man who is before you and the Spirit who lives inside you.

October’s Awakening, Day 5:

Pilate asked, "Quid est Veritas?" ("What is truth?") In Latin the answer is an anagram, "Est Vir qui Adest" ("It is the Man who is before you.").

 -Author Unknown

Pilate then went back inside the palace, summoned Jesus and asked him, “Are you the king of the Jews?” Jesus said, “My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jewish leaders. But now my kingdom is from another place.” “You are a king, then!” said Pilate. Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. In fact, the reason I was born and came into the world is to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me.” “What is truth?” retorted Pilate. With this he went out again to the Jews gathered there and said, “I find no basis for a charge against him. John 18:33,36-38 NIV

Pilate had a notice prepared and fastened to the cross. It read: jesus of nazareth, the king of the jews. Many of the Jews read this sign, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and the sign was written in Aramaic, Latin and Greek. John 19:19,20 NIV

            An anagram is simply a word, or phrase, or sentence formed from another by rearranging its letters or parts. This is quite interesting and profound, this “play on words”; and even though it is not precisely what the Scriptures relate, the meaning is clearly the same. True also is the fact that Latin, Greek, and Aramaic, were the languages in use in this region at that time, and Pilate, being Roman, assuredly knew Latin, even though Greek and Aramaic were the predominant spoken languages. Regardless, in all God’s languages, Truth is the Man on the Cross.