By our words we will be judged. Words come from the heart. Words are the fruit that reveals if our tree is rotting at the core and roots. If the core is hollow and infested with termites and/or the roots are dying, then our fruit will be sour. No one will pick and eat them. They fall to the group, root, and disappear from memory.
The whole assembly of religious leaders lied. Pilate’s words were politically motivated, not based on truth and justice. Jesus’s words were, “You have said so.” By their words they were revealed to be rooting. Soon they will be cut down and the stumps burned.
“I will judge you by your own words, you wicked servant!” (Luke 19:22) “For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.” (Matthew 12:37)
