What is Truth?

What is truth?  This question was once asked of Jesus Christ by a man named Pontius Pilate.  The scene was a Roman courtroom.  Christ was being tried on charges of sedition, of trying to overthrow the Roman government.  It was a strained situation that prompted the question about truth. Pontius Pilate was a governor in the land of Israel.  His office was political and had been purchased by power maneuvers.  During his reign, truth had been irrelevant in his political conquest.  Bribery, graft and corruption, linked with murder and violence, had been tools of Pontius Pilate in maintaining Roman supremacy.  Now Pilate raises the philosophical question, "What is truth?"