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Poor Pilate. If ever a man was caught unwittingly in the net of historical circumstance, it was Pilate. A simple Roman governor just doing his job, he could see that Jesus wasn’t the villain the Jewish crowd thought him to be. In the end, he washed his hands of the affair—tormented, it seems, by the injustice of the whole thing. But he didn’t come out of it too badly. Constantine liked him and took him as a forerunner of his own imperial embrace of Christianity in the fourth century. In the Coptic and Ethiopic churches, Pilate soon came to […]

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Endnotes

Philo, Embassy to Gaius 299–305.

Philo, Embassy to Gaius 302.

Josephus, Jewish War 2.169–174; Antiquities of the Jews 18.55–59.

Josephus, Jewish War 2.175; Antiquities of the Jews 18.60–62.

See Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews 18.89.

Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews 18.85–89.

Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews 18.90.

Josephus Antiquities of the Jews 18.64.

Tertullian, Apology, 21.

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Tertullian, Against the Jews 8.

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Tertullian, Apology 21.