Faith and Practice. Frank E. Wilson

meant, for His accusers immediately carried Him off to Pilate and charged Him with blasphemy, just as on an earlier occasion His enemies had sought to destroy Him for “making Himself equal with God.”¹² The records are full of it. There can be only one of three answers—either He was a fraud, or He was deluded, or He spoke the truth. No one can study the accounts of His life and harbor for a moment the idea that He would deliberately engage in deceit. Neither can anyone consider His clear thinking, His soundness of judgment, and the wholesome sanity of His teaching and, in the face of these, reach a conclusion that He was a victim of hallucinations. The alternative is to believe that He must have been speaking the truth.

      3. What others thought of Him.