Season 6, Christ's Ministry: The Wife of Pilate

Of the several influential women in the Bible who are not given names—Job’s wife, comes to mind—the wife of Pilate is perhaps the most shadowy. All that is known of her from the scriptures is her relationship to the Procurator Marcus Pontius Pilate, and the message she sent to him while he was sitting on the Seat of Judgment in the Praetorium the morning Jesus of Nazareth was tried for treason.

Yet her message, and its impact, have been felt for the two thousand years since it was delivered, and some arms of the church—the Eastern Orthodox, Coptic, Oriental Orthodox and Ethiopian Orthodox—venerate Pilate’s wife as a saint, and some even venerate Pilate as well.

Though the Bible does not give us much information about Pilate’s wife, she does appear in a number of ancient accounts that arose in the first few centuries of Christianity.

I Depiction of Claudia Procula
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II Discernment of Her Dream
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III Development of Spiritual Import
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To view the original YouTube presentation, click on "The Wife of Pilate"

The Acts of Paul item comes from "The Acts of Paul: A New Translation With Introduction and Commentary," Richard I. Pervo, Cascade Books, Eugene Oregon, 2014.

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