What is truth?
2 Corinthians 13
Coming with Authority
1 This will be
the third time I am coming to you. “By the mouth of two or three
witnesses every word shall be established.”
2 I have told you
before, and foretell as if I were present the second time, and now being absent
I write
to those who have sinned before, and to all the rest, that if I come again I
will not spare— 3 since
you seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, who is not weak toward you, but
mighty in you. 4 For
though He was crucified in weakness, yet He lives by the power of God. For we
also are weak in Him, but we shall live with Him by the power of God toward you.
5 Examine yourselves
as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know
yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.
6 But I trust that you
will know that we are not disqualified.
7 Now I
pray to God that you do no evil, not that we should appear approved, but that
you should do what is honorable, though we may seem disqualified.
8 For we can do nothing
against the truth, but for the truth.
9 For we are glad when
we are weak and you are strong. And this also we pray, that you may be made
complete. 10 Therefore
I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness,
according to the authority which the Lord has given me for edification and not
for destruction.
John 18
In Pilate’s Court
28 Then they led Jesus
from Caiaphas to the Praetorium, and it was early morning. But they themselves
did not go into the Praetorium, lest they should be defiled, but that they might
eat the Passover. 29
Pilate then went out to them and said, “What accusation do you bring against
this Man?”
30 They answered and
said to him, “If He were not an evildoer, we would not have delivered Him up to
you.”
31 Then Pilate said to
them, “You take Him and judge Him according to your law.”
Therefore the Jews said to him, “It is not lawful for us to put anyone to
death,” 32 that the
saying of Jesus might be fulfilled which He spoke, signifying by what death He
would die.
33 Then Pilate entered
the Praetorium again, called Jesus, and said to Him, “Are You the King of the
Jews?”
34 Jesus answered him,
“Are you speaking for yourself about this, or did others tell you this
concerning Me?”
35 Pilate answered,
“Am I a Jew? Your own nation and the chief priests have delivered You to me.
What have You done?”
36 Jesus answered, “My
kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, My servants
would fight, so that I should not be delivered to the Jews; but now My kingdom
is not from here.”
37 Pilate therefore
said to Him, “Are You a king then?”
Jesus answered, “You say rightly that I am a king. For this cause I was
born, and for this cause I have come into the world, that I should bear witness
to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice.”
38 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 fault in Him at all.
John 421
Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming when you will neither
on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, worship the Father.
22 You worship what
you do not know; we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews.
23 But the hour is
coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit
and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him.
24 God is
Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”
John 831
Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, “If you abide in My word, you
are My disciples indeed. 32
And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
33 They answered Him,
“We are Abraham’s descendants, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How
can You say, ‘You will be made free’?”
34 Jesus answered
them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, whoever commits sin is a slave of sin.
35 And a slave does
not abide in the house forever, but a son abides forever.
36 Therefore if the
Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed.
John 179 “I
pray for them. I do not pray for the world but for those whom You have given Me,
for they are Yours. 10
And all Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine, and I am glorified in them.
11 Now I am no longer
in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to You. Holy Father, keep
through Your name those whom You have given Me,
that they may be one as We are.
12 While I was with
them in the world,
I kept them in Your name. Those whom You gave Me I have kept;
and none of them is lost except the son of perdition, that the Scripture might
be fulfilled. 13 But
now I come to You, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have My
joy fulfilled in themselves.
14 I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them because they
are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
15 I do not pray that
You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the
evil one. 16 They are
not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
17 Sanctify them by
Your truth. Your word is truth.
18 As You sent Me into
the world, I also have sent them into the world.
19 And for their sakes
I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified by the truth
20 “I do not pray
for these alone, but also for those who will
believe in Me through their word;
21 that they all may
be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be
one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me.
22 And the glory which
You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one:
23 I in them, and You
in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that
You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me.
24 “Father, I desire
that they also whom You gave Me may be with Me where I am, that they may behold
My glory which You have given Me; for You loved Me before the foundation of the
world. 25 O righteous
Father! The world has not known You, but I have known You; and these have known
that You sent Me. 26
And I have declared to them Your name, and will declare it, that the love
with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them."
Luke 4 :16 So He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. And as
His custom was, He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood
up to read.
17
And He was handed the book of the prophet Isaiah. And when He had opened
the book, He found the place where it was written:
18 “
The Spirit of the LORD is upon Me,
Because He has anointed Me
To preach the gospel to the poor;
He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted,
To proclaim liberty to the captives
And recovery of sight to the blind,
To set at liberty those who are oppressed;
19 To
proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD.”
20 Then He
closed the book, and gave it back to the attendant and sat down.
And the eyes of all who were in the synagogue were fixed on Him.
21 And He began
to say to them, “Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.”
22 So all bore
witness to Him, and marveled at the gracious words which proceeded out of
His mouth. And they said, “Is this not Joseph’s son?”
23 He said to
them, “You will surely say this proverb to Me, ‘Physician, heal yourself!
Whatever we have heard done in Capernaum,
do also here in Your country.’”
24 Then He said,
“Assuredly, I say to you, no prophet is accepted in his own country.
25 But I tell
you truly, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the
heaven was shut up three years and six months, and there was a great
famine throughout all the land;
26 but to none
of them was Elijah sent except to Zarephath,in
the region of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.
27 And many
lepers were in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, and none of them
was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian.”
28 So all those
in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath,
29 and rose up
and thrust Him out of the city; and they led Him to the brow of the hill
on which their city was built, that they might throw Him down over the
cliff. 30 Then
passing through the midst of them, He went His way.