What the John text tells us is that Jesus is a leader like no other. The rules by which other leaders lead don’t apply to Jesus. To follow Jesus is to learn to be like him. And in this story, it means being willing to embrace a complicated truth over a comfortable lie. In response to Pilate Jesus says: “You want to talk about kingdoms, I want to talk about truth.” That’s where Jesus went with this king and truth idea that Pilate was focus on. “I have come to bear witness to the truth.” The truth about living, the truth about faith, the truth about meaning and purpose. The truth about grace and reconciliation. This is the truth that Christ came to testify to. And everyone, hear this, “everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice.”