John 18:38

What is truth?

Pilate's inquiry was not answered in words, but Truth sat embodied and bound before him. It matters not whether his question was sincere, or in pity of one whom he may have thought an enthusiast, it is evident that he was profoundly impressed, for at once he stepped out of the hall to the street, where the priests were waiting, and declared,

I find in him no fault at all.

It is his formal acquittal in the face of the Sanhedrim. Unless he had been profoundly stirred, he,. bloody, unscrupulous man, would not have cleared. helpless prisoner in the face of the Jewish nation which sought to destroy him.