Pilate

perhaps not to be believed of the Father, although written — whom these men bring down into the womb of Mary, and set in the tribunal of Pilate, and shut up in the tomb of Joseph.

"For there gathered together in this city against your holy Son, whom you have anointed, Herod and Pilate with the nations.

The tribe of Judah, however, did not fail, until he came for whom it was reserved—who himself did not sit upon the bodily throne either, the Jewish kingdom having passed thereafter to Herod, the son of the Ascalonite Antipater, and to his children, who divided Judaea into four governments, while Pilate was governor and Tiberius held the whole power of the Roman empire.

Then, when the Son of God was pleased to come to earth, they outraged him, and betrayed him to Pilate the governor of the Romans, and condemned him to the cross, not reverencing his benefactions and the countless miracles which he worked among them.

But if he seems not to have spoken of spiritual princes, then he spoke of secular ones — of the chief people, surely not among the nations — of its very rulers, of King Herod, of Pilate too, and of the Roman dignity, by which the greater principality of this age presided.

In short, when it comes to the apprehensions, he departed from him in the knowledge of Pilate.

when he is given over to the cross, water intervenes — Pilate's hands know it;

" For the nations were in tumult in the person of Pilate, and the peoples meditated vain things in the person of Israel.