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Jesus' Pilate is a windbag who adds: "Where there is truth, there will be no peace.
demanded Pontius Pilate (John 18:38) during his interrogation of Jesus.
John's Pilate epigrammatically offers the cynical question, "What is truth?"
(The real Pilate crucified 2,000 Pharisees in a single day.)
Pilate, who was in real life so cruel that the Roman authorities had to remove him from the procuratorship of Judea, is, in Jesus' account of things, the detached Gentile observer who believes that the "King of the Jews" has done no wrong, and should be released.