For as long as I can remember, I have believed that the truth will always surface, no matter how badly one tries to cover it up.

While some truths emerge slowly, others come bursting through unrelentingly. And on rare occasions, it can be something as trivial as a coin.

Just a few years back, archaeologists discovered a coin carved in bronze, approximately two thousand years old. As if that wasn’t mind-blowing enough, the coin was linked with one of the most important and highly debated figures in the New Testament — Pontius Pilate. This is the same Roman governor who washed his hands of Jesus’s fate, the same one mentioned in every Gospel.

Skeptics have always been attached to the Bible like a parasite. For centuries, they claimed it was a myth, a legend, and exaggerated at best. Some people even assert that a few people in the book never existed. One of those people was Pilate, up until now.

A Coin Placed In the Correct Era

The coin wasn’t “dazzling,” if you will. Merely a weatherworn piece of bronze engraved with faint words, but it had the name Pilate carved on it and a time frame of 29–32 A.D. That places it right alongside Christ’s time on earth.

Reading about that particular find made me feel like something had stirred up deep within me.

This was not merely an artifact. It was a reminder that God’s Word isn’t folklore or a myth, but reality.

Everything: Pilate, Jesus, the cross, the trial, and the crucifixion were not symbolic events. They actually took place.

Until 1961, the only proof we had of Pilate was the Bible’s word. Then, the Pilate Stone, bearing his name and title, was discovered. The coins have only added to the evidence.

Bit by bit, all the clues are revealing themselves.

The stones may not lie, but man can always argue.

Facts are not open to dispute, and there are endless disputes in modern society. Everyone gives their opinion, comes up with theories, and even counterarguments. Only coins will stand true.

Coins cannot offer arguments. They are silent, as are stones and artifacts. They don’t have a fancy story to tell. What they do have is undeniable proof, which affirms scripture.

Archaeological evidence isn’t required to clasp the Bible in believing arms. Still, when archaeology and history interlock, it feels divine, almost like a parent gently reminding the child, “Didn’t I say this?”

Facts and Faith Are Not Mutually Exclusive

As God’s obedient servant, I had pigeonholed myself into believing that science and faith were competitors wrestling with one another. However, I realized these arguments sprouted from a singular premise — creation. Why wouldn’t His evidence be available for discovery on the globe? It only made sense.

Glimpses of the Pilate coin don’t add to my faith but fortify it into a steel structure.

“My friend, be not afraid. He is not some ambiguous notion or figment of imagination waiting among the shadows to strike. Instead, He is the God whose fingerprints rest gently on our history, ready to be uncovered.”

“For we did not follow cleverly devised stories … but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.”
 — 2 Peter 1:16

Doesn’t Require Justification, But Sometimes Provides It

In all honesty, God doesn’t hire the staff to produce authenticity, but there doesn’t have to be a reason when these things happen around God’s mercy. His Son? “Check.” His Word? “Check.” When there is doubt, markers allow the stamina to be maintained.

To me, that coin symbolized one of those moments.

Not because I lacked faith, but because I needed a reminder that He walked this earth, and His story is still alive — not just in words, but also in stone, dust, and metal embroiled in history.

When I Required A Reminder

There’s a season in my life, not too long ago, pre-diagnosis, that I felt stuck, overwhelmed. Physically. Emotionally. Spiritually. My relationship with God grew deeper, but also quieter, after battling cancer, harrowing surgery, and emerging into the blaring reality of life.

I prayed, waited, believed, and became a weary traveler. But with radical faith.

And in the middle of all that, I stumbled across an article about a Pilate coin, and my ears perked up.

Here was a secular archaeologist on a wild goose chase in the land of Israel, digging up an artifact that soft-hearted dreamers like us had hung onto for over 2000 years.

God’s Word never needed to be bought, but at the time, it was like He defended me by resonating my mind with the fact that I’m not mad, anti-intellectual, or anchored to the living, breathing, insurmountable Scripture.

We have yet to hear the Earth’s True Voice.

“‘I tell you,’ he replied, ‘if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out’” (Luke 19:40).

In this day and age, coins and stones bear witness and proclaim the testament truth.

The Bible is not only alive in the spirit. It also lives in reality and has been proven multiple times by uninspected archaeological findings, which faith had known all along.

A Closer Look at the Believer and Non-Believer’s Perspective

If you are a reluctant believer, do not worry. I get you. It can be difficult to accept Faith.

But somehow, like me, all you need is a sign for reassurance. Something buried in the sands of time and conveniently set right at your feet.

What if it is not physics finding proof to justify the existence of God?

What if God uses earthly logic to reach out to you?

Concluding Thoughts

Coins do not lead me to give my life to Jesus.

My life-transforming experience, His love and grace, and what occurred on the cross opened my heart to Him.

But the existence of these coins helps remind me that even in the most incredible, complex, multi-layered truth, there’s an irrefutably simple, yet powerful, reality — the reality we could miss: “I told you the truth all along.”