No, from what i've read/heard, the Romans thought Pilate was brutal and that is saying something.
If you take the bible thing as something literal, that really happened, i think you have to look at Pilate as just bored and playing with the crowd; he could do whatever as his whims took him.
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Date: 2007-10-18 06:01 pm (UTC)If you take the bible thing as something literal, that really happened, i think you have to look at Pilate as just bored and playing with the crowd; he could do whatever as his whims took him.