18:37
Before he laid the second issue down , he read the following article on Truth : `` Unknowingly to himself , Pontius Pilate asked one of the greatest of questions when he asked Jesus Christ , ` What is truth ? ' Jesus was on trial before him , and He had just said , in reply to another question of Pilate 's , ` Thou sayest that I am a king . To this end was I born , and for this cause came I into the world , that I should bear witness unto the truth . Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice ' -LRB- John 18:37 -RRB- . And then Pilate asked , ` What is truth ? ' but he did not stop to get an answer . `` The ` truth ' to which Jesus often referred means righteousness , true religion , the genuine revelation of the true plan of salvation .