(June 3, 2013 at 11:26 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Um, in the gospel stories Pilate comes across as something of a wimp. Since you, (as usual) don't know what the hell you are talking about, the far more detailed discussions of the man from Josephus and Philo portray a far more typically arrogant Roman praefect ( not "procurator" as the phony Tacitus reference contends) who ran his praefecture however he saw fit and certainly did not listen to a mob.
....and I am to take your word on this? Or will you find some commentary to support your statement?