[P]ilate evidently caught the idea that moral conduct had something to do with the discovery of truth, so he  resorted to pragmatism and utilitarianism, and sneered the question:

What is truth? 

John 18:38

Then he turned his back on truth- better not on it, but on Him Who is Truth. It remained to be seen that tolerance of truth and error in a stroke of broadmindedness leads to intolerance and persecution; "What is truth?" when sneered, is followed up with the second sneer, "What is justice?" Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right. He who was so tolerant of error as to deny an Absolute Truth was the one who would crucify Truth.

-Fulton Sheen, Life of Christ (1958)