After Johns death at the hands of Herod Antipas, he left a large following who continued to exist apart from the Yeshuines. The Gospel of Nicodemus. She was still more beautiful in the heavenly restfulness which lay upon her but her forehead was of a pale pinkish colour like the rose which had been placed on her. The punishment of the Almighty came down like a ame. At last, after a sign given by my husband, silence was restored. The women remained at the gate, and the man threw himself at my feet and wept bitterly. Each play was organized and performed by a different guild; they were suppressed during Elizabeth Is reign in 1569, but have been revived in modern productions. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. This cunning tetrarch, with pretended submissiveness, declared that, out of respect towards me, he placed the fate of this man in my hands, and this he let me know through the Caesarian soldiers. ve years old when Pilate, by the Emperors grace, was appointed procurator of Judea. First Apology 35. The curtain which hides the Holy of Holies in the holy Temple has been torn from top to bottom in two parts. Each of these words pierced my heart like a knife. She may have had an effect on him by her bold move. The latter were distinguished by parchment rolls containing various texts of the laws, which they had bound to their heads. If you wish to save yourself and all who are dear to you, than meditate in your prayers upon Golgotha and look with rm faith to Him who suffered for you and all others that they might be saved. p. 417. His look is imposing and serene. I remember-you with tears in my eyes. Here we are told that Pilates wife did not come to her husband when he was sitting on the judgment seat during the trial of Jesus Christ. At last, it is proved that Roman justice is also guilty in no less a degree. The old man went away. It was reported that all Judea had come together in Jerusalem. I shared with him my leisure hours, my sorrows and my joys. Without further delay he was to be sentenced to death as many others before Him. He said his religion forbade him and his subordinate to sit at ones and the same table with Roman and to feast with them (to participate in drinking orgies). In the Creed, the whose words and sentences we notice on our altars, calling them divine. The prosecutor continued grimly to accuse the martyr, basing his arguments on the documents he had brought with him. Further, it is remarkable Lentulus did not (as godless occultists philosophers of our day maintain) mention that Jesus had learned chiromantic and fakir-like miracle working somewhere in Egypt or India. Cyclopedia of Biblical Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature. When I came to their house, my servants could only with great difficulty force a way for me through the throng, for many mourners and a large crowd had gathered before my friends home. Then those unhappy men asked the rocks and the mountains of the earth to swallow and to cover them. And that it was predicted that our Christ should heal all diseases and raise the dead, hear what was said. Beating, jeering, the general scorn, and the imminent death as martyrnothing could darken His divine and radiant face. After some time I came to love this fertile and rich province which my husband had to rule in the name of Rome, the master of the nations. Without his protector in power, Pilate made a major error and suppressed a small uprising in Samaria. Our deadly silence was disturbed by a thunderstroke resounding through the corridors of the palace. Her dream conrms the vision in St. Johns Revelation, 6,16-17., Curious things happen in our days. Another tradition states that Pontius Pilate was born in Germany and was a bastard son of Tyrus, king of Mayence. Oh, beyond any doubt, He suffered, but He suffered gladly, and His soul seemed to me to be carried to invisible heights as a consuming pure ame. The German professor applied to Father Freilinghusen, Director of the Museums in the Vatican, who procured for him an English translation of the document and forwarded it to the applicant. Claudia Procula--wife of one of the most controversial figures in ancient history--comes alive to twenty-first-century readers in a groundbreaking new novel by the award-winning author of the Lindsey McCall medical mystery series. WebJust as the devil tempted Eve to eat the apple and thus bring death into the world, the devil also sought use Claudia to forestall mans salvation. 1887, p. 202. Beside these three parties, I had also to struggle against the troubled population, which was always ready to make common cause in these rebellions, and to exploit such implications as arise similar misunderstanding., Under these circumstances Jesus was brought before the High Priest and sentenced to death. Ante-Nicene Fathers. Many Jews believe Him to be God, others denounce Him as acting against Your Majestys laws. Donations to this ministry aretax-deductible. : Pontius again ordered them to be silent, and said to them : I nd no guilt in this man and I acquit Him. One would have thought that the end of the world was near or that the universe returned to its original chaos. I was warned that a disaster would befall this man. Jerusalem was crowded with a population which had gathered from the Nazarene mountains. Each of these words pierced my heart like a knife. In this present work the suffering of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, and the full trial of His life have been described, so that all might have an opportunity to recognise the path where- in he should walk to obtain eternal life. 1995. vol. He fullled His prophecy and victoriously overcame death; rst He showed Himself to His disciples and friends, and then to the people. Claudia Procula must have had a difficult time in the days, months and years that followed Jesus' death. I was walking in the court when the Nazarene appeared and, when my eyes met His, I felt as if an iron hand had fixed my feet to the ground; and although the Nazarene was calm and serene like an innocent child, I trembled like a delinquent. You will see, therefore, that the duty of those who desire to be loved depends in following the path of obedience and suffering for the truths sake. The hall in -the courts was crowded, and looked like a foaming stream whose waters increased by an influx, beginning at the mount Zion, where the Temple stood, and owing down to the Praetorium; and every minute new voices joined in this hellish choir. Of course, rival Theologians contended the dream was sent by Satan in an attempt to thwart the salvation that was going to result from Christs death. What happened to Pontius Pilate after the death of the Lord Jesus Christ? The procession generally took place on Thursday. print and digital media outlets, dedicated to reporting the truth in light of the Gospel and the Around Him stood the enraged and excited crowd which had brought Him before the tribunal. I won't spoil the end, but it is wondrous, as those words continue to echo: "Crucifixus etiam pro nobis sub Pontio Pilato, passus et supultus es . He said that he could prove that the sentence was an unjust and unlawful one, and that Jesus fell a victim to innumerable mistakes of the justice of that time. For decades, the daughter of the last Oracle at Delphi has suppressed the secrets of her birth, extensive What a dream, or better, what a revelation! . He, perhaps, had not wanted to expose himself before Christs disciples, and, perhaps, before his wife, who highly sympathised with Christ, and whose dream was not only an actual prophetic prediction of what would happen to those who took part in the trial, but also to those in our days, who act as the Hebrews who feigned to defend and to protect the Roman rulers, but in reality were only great traitors. Woe to the holy abode!. Semida rose from her bed, as if supported by an invisible hand. The details of this terribly unjust act increased the suffering and tortures which lled my heart. Deliver Him to us, so that He may die on the cross! Because she seems to have held an interest in the Jewish religion, she probably had discussed Jesus with Pilate. When I entered he raised his Head and exclaimed in desperation: O Claudia, why did I not follow your advice? As a result, pressure was applied by the Jewish Sanhedrin (Luke 23:2-7) upon Pilate. 1887, p. 201. The short story or novella takes the form of a letter from Claudia's freed Greek servant, recounting the effects of Pilate's condemnation of Jesus on Good Friday on Claudia and on her relationship with her husband. Claudia seeks out the Nazarenes, followers of the Risen Christ, in Rome, and hears them proclaim the Creed during their worship. Never has there been a heart so daring and fearless as that of this warrior. 1887, p. 199. He answered: I am Joseph of Arimatha; I have come to ask your permission for the burial of Jesus of Nazareth. I replied: Your petition shall be granted. Whereupon I ordered Manlius to take soldiers with him and see that the burial was not interfered with. The following are its contents : From Claudia Procula, greetings to Fulvia Rornelia. Dr Blandeisler unfolded whole archives of documents containing about 1000 typewritten pages. These wretched people could not be satisfied, otherwise, and I had to allow them to deprive Him of His life., More than once during our civic riots I was witness of popular paroxysms; whatever I had seen, nothing was to be compared with what I saw here. Oh, believe me, that a single drop of this blood may be your damnation for all eternity. Antiquities of the Jews 18.3.1. His face shone in majesty like the sun. The second reason was the dissatisfaction they bore in their hearts because I decreed that a part of the treasure belonging to the temple should be used for the creation of public works. In the 3rd century, Origen of Alexandria (a Greek scholar and early Christian Theologian) suggested in his Homilies on Matthew that the wife of Pilate had become a Christian, or at least that God sent her the dream mentioned by Matthew so that she would convert. For he was a doer of surprising feats a teacher of such men as receive the truth with pleasure. But where Sayer's wife of Pilate hears different languages and voices; von le Fort's version of the dream has Claudia traveling through time from the catacombs, to a Roman basilica church, to Gothic cathedrals ("the massive halls began to stand upright, as though they hovered weightlessly in the sky, freed from all the laws of stone") in which the choirs sang the words, and then to even more unrecognizable--to her--buildings with "strange draperies". rst years of my family life went by calmly and peacefully, Heaven blessed me with a son, and he was dearer to me than the light of day.