The crowd, however, simply shouts out names containing the letter " r ", in order to mock Pilate's speech impediment.

In " Pilate's Dream ", he foresees that history will mention his name and leave him the blame of Jesus ' death.

* The Collection of Short Stories The Night Chicago Died by Tom Wessex contains a story entitled " An Afternoon on Skull Hill ", in which the author supposes that Gestas, one of the thieves crucified with Christ, was in fact Pilate's illegitimate son.

Pilate's rank while he was governor of Iudaea province appeared in a Latin inscription on the Pilate Stone which called him a prefect, while this Tacitean passage calls him a procurator.

This word was based on the transliteration " Kawana " (= ' governor '), which had been invented by Bible translators to explain Pontius Pilate's authority in Judaea.

Pilate's wife had seen Jesus in a dream earlier that day, and she forewarned Pilate to " have nothing to do with this righteous man " ().

He betrayed Jesus for a bribe of " thirty pieces of silver " by identifying him with a kiss — " the kiss of Judas " — to arresting soldiers of the High Priest Caiaphas, who then turned Jesus over to Pontius Pilate's soldiers.

In the NT washing also occurs in reference to rites of Judaism part of the action of a healing by Jesus, the preparation of a body for burial, the washing of nets by fishermen, a person's personal washing of the face to appear in public, the cleansing of an injured person's wounds, Pilate's washing of his hands as a symbolic claim of innocence and foot washing, now partly a symbolic rite within the Church.

Jesus also appears to have influenced Zacchaeus, " a chief tax collector " in Jericho, which is in Pilate's tax jurisdiction, to resign.

Pilate's main question to Jesus was whether he considered himself to be the King of the Jews in an attempt to assess him as a potential political threat.

According to Matthew 27: 19, even Pilate's wife spoke to him on Jesus ' behalf.

The crowd in Pilate's courtyard, according to the Synoptics, had been coached by the Pharisees and Sadducees to shout against Jesus.

Pilate's reluctance to execute Jesus in the gospels has been seen as reflecting the authors ' agenda.

* A song by UK-based songwriter Howard Dobson called This Is Jesus ( King of the Jews ) looks at the Passion of Christ from Pilate's perspective and was a semi-finalist in the 2011 UK Songwriting Contest.

* Barry Dennen, in Norman Jewison's musical Jesus Christ Superstar ( 1973 ), portrayed a cruel Pilate who after suffering a prophetic dream ( which in the Gospel of Matthew is dreamed by Pilate's wife ) is very reluctant to put Christ to death, but succumbs to mob pressures.

In the Chester Mystery Plays ' portrayal of Christ's Passion, specifically his humiliation before his sentence to crucifixion, the accounts of the Gospels concerning the physical violence visited on Jesus during his trial before the Sanhedrin, and the humiliating crowning of thorns visited upon him in Pilate's palace ( or by Herod's soldiers, according to Luke ), is further confused by showing both actions as being carried out by jeering Jews.

* Jesus ' supporters have been added to the screaming crowd outside Pilate's palace ;

Though the Acta Pilati purports to be a report by Pontius Pilate containing evidence of Jesus Christ's messiahship and godhead, there is no record in early Christian lore of Pilate's conversion to Christianity.

John Calvin supported the " agent of God " Christology and argued that in his trial in Pilate's Court Jesus could have successfully argued for his innocence, but instead submitted to crucifixion in obedience to the Father.

The Scala Sancta, the stairs from Pontius Pilate's praetorium, ascended by Jesus during his trial were also reportedly brought to Rome by Saint Helena of Constantinople in the 4th Century.

The blood curse refers to a New Testament passage from which is part of the section that describes Pilate's court before the Crucifixion of Jesus.

Jesus, in this view, must have been the planner and leader of the Jewish nonviolent resistance to Pilate's plan to set up Roman Eagle standards on Jerusalem's Temple Mount.

The story of this successful resistance is told by Josephus — who does not say who the leader was, but does tell of Pilate's crucifixion of Jesus just two paragraphs later in a passage whose authenticity is heavily disputed.

*" Pilate's Dream " ( Jesus Christ Superstar ) ( 1993 ) ( Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber ; Lyrics: Tim Rice )

* Pilate's wife suffered in a dream because of Jesus ( Matthew 27 );

Father Lucci is revealed to be Cartaphilus, a Roman Centurion and Pilate's porter who struck Jesus before his death and was sentenced to wander the Earth until Christ returned to judge mankind.

According to Fredriksen, two events in the Gospels probably happened: John's baptism and Pilate's crucifixion of Jesus.

It has been asserted that Pilate may have been born in Fortingall, Perthshire, in Scotland, the illegitimate son of a Roman ambassador sent to pacify the Picts and a Pictish girl, but the Romans did not invade Britain until some years after Pilate's birth and appear to have had relatively little contact with that part of Scotland even then.

Perhaps after the soldiers had laid him on the ground, while Joseph of Arimathea was at Pontius Pilate's asking for Christ's body, Nicodemus was gathering his mixture of myrrh and aloes, and the others had gone home to mourn.

Pontius Pilate's title was traditionally thought to have been procurator, since Tacitus speaks of him as such.

Pontius Pilate's family owned a grotto on Ponza, which is still named after him.

Pilate's wife is often, but not usually, shown in medieval depictions of the scenes including her husband, typically standing behind him, and sometimes whispering in his ear.

Otto's scenes, and those with Pilate's wife, were cut from the film after the script had gone to the publishers, and so they can be found in the published version of the script.

But the surviving Samaritans appealed to the Syrian Legate, Vitellius, that they were unarmed and that Pilate's actions were excessively cruel.

On the DVD commentary, Gilliam expresses great pride in one set in particular, the main hall of Pilate's fortress, which had been designed so that it accurately looked like an old Judean temple that the Romans had converted by dumping their structural artifacts ( such as marble floors and columns ) on top.

Josephus notes that while Pilate's predecessors had respected Jewish customs by removing all images and effigies on their standards when entering Jerusalem, Pilate allowed his soldiers to bring them into the city at night.

* Pilate's position ( Governor ) isn't specified,, cf.

The infighting among revolutionary organisations is demonstrated most dramatically when the PFJ attempts to kidnap Pontius Pilate's wife, but encounters agents of the Campaign for a Free Galilee, and the two factions begin a violent brawl over which of them conceived of the plan first.

The scenes shown included the shepherds gathering for Jesus's birth, which would have been at the very start of the movie ; a segment showing the kidnap of Pilate's wife ( a large woman played by John Case ); a scene introducing hardline Zionist Otto, leader of the Judean People's Front ( played by Eric Idle ); and a scene in which Pilate's wife alerts Otto to Brian's capture.

The exact nature of the wanderer's indiscretion varies in different versions of the tale, as do aspects of his character ; sometimes he is said to be a shoemaker or other tradesman, while sometimes he is the doorman at Pontius Pilate's estate.

The sources for Pilate's life are the four canonical gospels, Philo of Alexandria, Josephus, a brief mention by Tacitus, and an inscription known as the Pilate Stone, which confirms his historicity and establishes his title as prefect.

Scholars have long debated how to interpret Pilate's portrayal in the sources.

Limestone cows block discovered in 1961 with Pilate's tribute in Latin to Tiberius.

But the power of appointment of the High Priest resided in the Roman legate of Syria or the prefect of Judaea in Pilate's day and until 41 AD.

In chronicling the history of the Roman administrators in Judaea, ancient Jewish writers Philo and Josephus describe some of the other events and incidents that took place during Pilate's tenure.