LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Pilate: Death
built 127 days ago
Pilate is on much weaker ground. He condemns to death a man he believes to be innocent — and he does so... in a shifty manner that seeks to fix all guilt for the murder on Caiaphas and the mob and to exculpate himself.
Source:
Actually, Pilate was likely a friend of Caesar. His anti-semitic attitude was a reflection of his being pro-Roman and the need to maintain control. Tiberius had ... shown contempt for the Jews when he expelled all of them from Rome in 19 CE (Ant. XVIII 3:5). Until 32 CE Tiberius, and Sejanus until his death, appeared anti-semitic. However, it was Tiberius who "sent in all but two procurators to govern the nation of the Jews, Gratus, and his successor in the government, Pilate."
Source:
[One] document, sometimes called "The Death of Pilate, Who Condemned Jesus," tells a very different story. In it, Tiberius Caesar, the Roman emperor, became very sick. Having heard of a man called Jesus who has been going around working all kinds of miracles and healing all kinds of people, Tiberius sent a messenger to Pilate with the order to send Jesus to heal him. Pilate admitted to the messenger that Jesus was dead... he lied about the cause: he told the messenger that Jesus was plotting a rebellion, and was therefore crucified. At his lodgings, however, the messenger heard a very different story: a woman told him that Jesus was killed for no reason, and, upon hearing this, Tiberius immediately sent for Pilate. Pilate was dreadfully frightened, for he knew that Tiberius would be incredibly angry, but he had a trick under his sleeve--he wore the coat of Jesus when he went to see the emperor.
Source:
Pilate is portrayed as a sympathetic character, they argue, who wants to spare the innocent Christ but who yields to the demands of Caiaphas and the mob that He should be crucified. Caiaphas... harbors no such reluctance. He agitates clearly for Christ's death. And this is undoubtedly what Gibson's film shows — just as it is also undoubtedly the account in the Gospels.
Source:
In The Flame and the Wind, a novel by John Blackburn, the aged Pilate is wracked by guilt over Jesus' death and directs his heir to find out if Jesus was really the son of God. The imperial bureaucrat has retired to Sicily to become a gentleman farmer in the Anatole France short story "The Procurator of Judea", and Dutch writer Simon Vestdijk's 1938 novel
Source:
Pilate yielded to the demands of the mob. Rather than risk losing his position, he delivered Jesus up to be crucified. But in spite of his precautions, the very thing he dreaded afterward came upon him. His honors were stripped from him, he was cast down from his high office, and, stung by remorse and wounded pride, not long after the crucifixion he ended his own life. So all who compromise with sin will gain only sorrow and ruin. "There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death." Prov. 14:12.
Source:
MORE ABOUT
Death