Letter of Pilate regarding Jesus

[WarriorAngel]

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Since it was not put into the scriptures, albeit he was not writing under inspiration to teach, the letter is significant for those who may scoff.

 

[Bob Crowley]

I didn't watch the video, but I suspect it refers to the "Acta Pilata".

I don't think Pilate wrote the document. Scholarship seems to place it's origin around the 4th to 5th century.

Gospel of Nicodemus - Wikipedia

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The Portrayals of Pilate – Ancient Inscriptions from Israel / Palestine

Free and accessible inscriptions and their English translations of Israel/Palestine from the Persian period through the Islamic conquest (ca. 500 BCE - 640 CE)

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Ancient historians varied in their opinion of Pilate.

Ancient writers’ opinions of Pontius Pilate vary considerably. In his Legatio ad Gaium (The Embassy to Gaius6), Philo describes Pilate as “a man of inflexible, stubborn and cruel disposition” when he refuses to remove pagan statues from the Holy City of Jerusalem.7

The Gospel of John, however, describes Pilate as a man who bends to the whims of others:

As soon as the chief priests and their officials saw [Jesus], they shouted, “Crucify! Crucify!” But Pilate answered, “You take him and crucify him. As for me, I find no basis for a charge against him.”1 In this excerpt, Pilate himself has no malice towards Jesus. His reply gives no indication of cruelty. Instead, Pilate responds to the wishes of those he governs and gives his approval to their demands.8

Josephus describes him with relative neutrality.9 In Josephus’ The Jewish War, Pilate stages a show of force against a group of dissenting Jews, but gains respect for them when he recognizes their religious dedication and calls off his guards.10 He serves the Roman Emperor but is not inherently malicious or anti-Semitic. While none of these authors portrays Pilate as a hero, some groups throughout history have viewed Pilate in this light. In fact, the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church considers Pontius Pilate and his wife saints.11

I suppose his wife might have become Christian. She was the who warned him that she suffered terribly on Christ's account in a dream. We also read that Pilate was "even more afraid" when he was told by the Jews that Christ claimed He was the Son of God.

His fear may have been intially provoked by his wife's advice, and exacerbated by the Jewish claim.

Secondly for the Gospel writers to find out about his wife's dream and warning, someone would have had to tell them about it. I doubt if it was Pilate, so I suspect it was her. If so then she may have had some dealing with some of the apostles.

I think he would have been a worried man at the very least, especially when we consider the darkening of the sun, and the earthquake, tombs splitting open and the temple curtain ripping in two when Christ died.

But I don't think he wrote the Acta Pilata.

 

[WarriorAngel]

I didn't watch the video, but I suspect it refers to the "Acta Pilata".

I don't think Pilate wrote the document. Scholarship seems to place it's origin around the 4th to 5th century.

Gospel of Nicodemus - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

The Portrayals of Pilate – Ancient Inscriptions from Israel / Palestine

Free and accessible inscriptions and their English translations of Israel/Palestine from the Persian period through the Islamic conquest (ca. 500 BCE - 640 CE)

www.inscriptionsisraelpalestine.org

Ancient historians varied in their opinion of Pilate.



I suppose his wife might have become Christian. She was the who warned him that she suffered terribly on Christ's account in a dream. We also read that Pilate was "even more afraid" when he was told by the Jews that Christ claimed He was the Son of God.

His fear may have been intially provoked by his wife's advice, and exacerbated by the Jewish claim.

Secondly for the Gospel writers to find out about his wife's dream and warning, someone would have had to tell them about it. I doubt if it was Pilate, so I suspect it was her. If so then she may have had some dealing with some of the apostles.

I think he would have been a worried man at the very least, especially when we consider the darkening of the sun, and the earthquake, tombs splitting open and the temple curtain ripping in two when Christ died.

But I don't think he wrote the Acta Pilata.

The original, unless kept by the Dead Sea for some reason, wouldn’t have survived. I think many writings had to be recompiled every so years because deterioration.