Category:Pilate's wife (subject)

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Pilate's wife, according to Christian tradition, tried to save Jesus of Nazareth at his trial.

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Pilate's wife is known only by one verse in the Gospel of Matthew. Later Christian tradition (Acts of Pilate) would give her a name, Procula, speculating on her relation with Jesus and her conversion to Christianity. The chronicle of Pseudo-Dexter (1619) is the first place known where she is referred to as Claudia.

Pilate's wife in Second Temple Jewish sources

Gospel of Matthew

Mt 27:19 -- While Pilate was sitting in the judgment hall, his wife sent him a message: "Have nothing to do with that innocent man, because in a dream last night, I suffered much on account of him."

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