About Pilate

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As you can see, I am new here and I have looked for something on this subject but couldn’t find it. Please forgive me if I am wrong or didn’t look in the right place.

My question:

Pilate condemned Jesus to death, but he was afraid of what was going to happen if he let Jesus go free. Did Pilate commit a sin? Or was he just fulfilling the prophesy? From what I gather, when I read the Scriptures, is that Pilate did what he had to do. Do you think that he later repented? Did he ask forgiveness for what he had done?

I hope that my question makes sense.

Thank you.
 
All that I have read about Pilate indicates he was only worried about Pilate…his hand washing was for show…He was quite a thug, had the reputation of being a brute, and often executed people without trying them…
 
Hi, redrosetea. (I LOVE Red Rose tea!)

Thanks for your response. I suppose it is possible that he repented later in life. I don’t know much about him, didn’t know about him being a thug. Had to be some rough time living back then, don’t you think?
 
I am using other things than scipture when I give you my opinion…I also watched a National Geographic program about him…Nothing made him sound like anything other than a brute

The writings of Josephus and another early historian, whose name escapes me concur…He was a thief, and a bully ,a really coarse man
 
Now the harder question Pontius Pilate was a truly awful man. He regularly stole funds from the temple and murdered those who protested. In 36 AD he violently suppressed what he thought to be a rebellion in Samaria, but which was in fact a religious celebration of the Samaritans. He was recalled from the Roman foreign service because he was just too immoral even for Roman tastes. There is a legend that cannot be substantiated that he ended his life when he was ordered to commit suicide by the emperor. The crucifixion of Jesus was just one item on Pilate’s list of crimes.
 
Thank you, redrose! I should probably look up information on line about him. I was just wondering if there was any particular stand the Catholic church had.

Thanks again.
 
Nightingales said:
Thank you, redrose! I should probably look up information on line about him. I was just wondering if there was any particular stand the Catholic church had.

Thanks again.
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The last snippet of information I gave you was written by a priest
 
In the Ethiopean Church, Pilate is honoured as a saint, based on the pseudo-gospel, The Acts of Pilate. It’s interesting, but certainly mistaken.
 
Pilate most likely was a brutal governor. That’s why he was in Jerusulem- to keep down the uprisings of the Jews. St. John allude to that fact that Pilate commits a sin by doing what he is doing but also shows that he has a free will in this.
So Pilate said to him, “Do you not speak to me? Do you not know that I have power to release you and I have power to crucify you?”
Jesus answered (him), “You would have no power over me if it had not been given to you from above. For this reason the one who handed me over to you has the greater sin.”
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Jn: 19, 10-11
 
I don’t think Pilate was scared of anything, he had a considerable military force backing him as governor.

As the governor he was charged with trying and punishing lawbreakers. Since the Defendant clearly wasn’t seeking the overthrow of Roman rule, and Pilate clearly saw it, Jesus was obviously railroaded in the trial.

Pilate abrogated his duties, caused the death of an innocent man, I’d say he was sinning.
 
Hi! 🙂
Maybe this would help.
Quoted from greatcrusade.org/greatcrusade/The_Passion/Text_for_The_Passion.htm (This has been approved by the Church so it is safe to read. :))

Jesus Is Taken Again before Pilate

I allowed them to treat Me as a mad man and they covered Me with a white tunic as a sign of their ridicule and their making fun of Me. Later, in the middle of furious mocking shouts, they took Me again before Pilate.

Watch how this bewildered and very confused man does not know what to do with Me. And to quiet the fury of the mob, he commands that they have Me scourged.

Represented in Pilate, I saw the souls that lack the courage and generosity to break away once and for all from the demands of the world and from their own nature. Instead of nipping the dangers of what their conscience tells them about not being of the world and of nature, their conscious mind tells them not to be of the good spirit. Then they give in to a whim, enjoy themselves in a passing satisfaction, and surrender in part to what their passion demands. And to silence the guilty feelings, they tell themselves: “I have already deprived myself of this or that, and that is enough.”

I will only say to this soul: “You scourge Me as did Pilate.” You have already taken one step, tomorrow another. Do you plan to satisfy your passion in this way? No! It shall soon demand more.

As you have not had the courage to fight your own nature in this small thing, much less will you have it later when the occasion shall be greater.
 
I grew up thinking that Pilate died a martyr.

At least that’s what the Encyclopaedia Americana article said about him way back in 1960’s set I was allowed thumb through when I was just knee high to a grasshopper.

That is if my memory serves me right.
 
Jimzz12 said:
I grew up thinking that Pilate died a martyr.

At least that’s what the Encyclopaedia Americana article said about him way back in 1960’s set I was allowed thumb through when I was just knee high to a grasshopper.

That is if my memory serves me right.
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I have read he committed suicide but no one actually knows it seems…He just sort of vanished from history
 
Interesting responses. Thanks, everyone.

I had read somewhere that Pilate had become a saint, that he repented his sin before he died, that he was truly sorry for condemning an innocent man.
 
Nightingales said:
Interesting responses. Thanks, everyone.

I had read somewhere that Pilate had become a saint, that he repented his sin before he died, that he was truly sorry for condemning an innocent man.
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He is certainly not a saint in the Catholic Church…you have to be careful what sources you trust
 
redrosetea said:
He is certainly not a saint in the Catholic Church…you have to be careful what sources you trust
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redrosetea, I realize that, I was just stating what I read, not that I believe it.

I should probably start a different thread about Judas. I have a million questions about him as well.
 
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