c. AD 94

J. AJ 17.105

The Antiquities of the Jews 17.105

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Antiquities of the Jews

17.105

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

105Moreover he showed the weakness of the evidence obtained by torture, which was commonly false, because the distress men are in under such tortures naturally obliges them to say many things in order to please those that govern them. He also offered himself to the torture.