WHAT IS TRUTH? THE PASSION Ken Duncan, Australian, 2005 From the movie set; The Passion of The Christ Panograph, 865mm x 495mm, No. 133 of 2000 The Christian Thomas Lee Collection of Fine Art In this scene Pontius Pilate, played by Hristo Naumov Shopov, struggles to make sense of his encounter with Jesus whom he has just interrogated. "What is truth?" he asks of his wife. "Can you tell me how to recognize it when it is spoken?" His meeting with Jesus had thoroughly shaken him. Although Pilate was the highest Roman official in the land, with power to proclaim life or death over any of his subjects, Jesus had appeared unaffected. "You would have no power over me at all," Jesus had said, "unless it were given to you from above." The scene thus becomes a powerful symbol of the universal search for understanding.