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There is an amazing amount of inaccurate material, or speculation presented as "probable" or "not improbable" in the NT field. This appears to be part of that vast morass of unsuccessful Christian attempts to make sense of the Bible in Enlightenment terms, as if it were a history on the level of Herodotus.

You can read this in the article: Unless, of course, Pilate was a prefect, and had to conduct the trial because that was the most dramatic exposition of the myth.

This article on Pilate is from Fausset's Bible Dictionary, which is out of copyright.

Andrew Robert Fausset - Born: 1821; Died: 1910