Jesting Pilate

Jesting Pilate

The phrase Jesting Pilate can be:
*a phrase coined by Francis Bacon in the opening sentence of his essay Of Truth
*a name for the Biblical verse to which Bacon was referring, namely
*the title of a book by Aldous Huxley


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