Page "Pontius Pilate" Paragraph 53

There is a pseudepigrapha letter reporting on the crucifixion, purporting to have been sent by Pontius Pilate to the Emperor Claudius, embodied in the pseudepigrapha known as the Acts of Peter and Paul, of which the Catholic Encyclopedia states, " This composition is clearly apocryphal though unexpectedly brief and restrained.

" There is no internal relation between this feigned letter and the 4th-century Acts of Pilate ( Acta Pilati ).