“What is Truth?,” asked famously Pilate from his wife Claudia,  2,000 years ago.

 “Do you hear it, recognize it when it is spoken?,” Pilate further inquires.

She softly said: “Yes, I do”.

All wise, she cares to explains something else to her all hesitant husband, leaving him even more confused: “If you will not hear the truth, no one can tell (it to) you…”

In the masterpiece film by director Mel Gibson “The Passion of the Christ”, worth watching again during this week, the powerful dialogue emerges in all its profound meaning.

The all powerful Roman Governor of Judea, the incarnation of political and military might in the times of Jesus, was trembling, full of uncertainty and fears, pondering an answer to the simple question.

It had been planted in his mind by Jesus himself, although he was already beaten and in chains --his life totally at the mercy of Pilate-- while the 2 men momentarily dialogued in the private chambers of the Roman Ruler.

He, the man with the certain earthly power, obviously couldn’t figure out a certain answer for the question.

The question continues to resonate through the centuries all the way to our times, begging for an answer one we may try again to obtain during this Holy Week.

In Pilate’s world, like in ours today, the truth was a relative --no, never and absolute-- subject to change according to the convenience of the moment, or the always shifting arena of political circumstances and ever changing human affairs.

“I was born to give testimony to the Truth….All men who hear the Truth hear my voice,” goes on the story in the Gospel to say Jesus told Pilate-- with a Power --real Power-- that survives that one of the Roman ruler, and all the powerful since him, so temporary and a mere appearance.

It was a real Power that released Him from fear. A force that empowered Him to take on the very religious leaders of his religious community and denounce them for the very trespass they could never be accused of: Sin.

When the mobs wanted to kill him for daring so much with the high priests, he faced his destiny with serenity and peace.

He knew what the Truth was. He was, and is, indeed, the Truth.

“The Truth --He promised-- shall make you free…”.

¿Isn’t that the best that can be offered?