Matthew 27:19 - While Pilate was sitting on the judge's seat, his wife sent him this message: "Don't have anything to do with that innocent man, for I have suffered a great deal today in a dream because of him."
I wonder what the dream -- or was it a nightmare? -- was about. Was Jesus in it or was it just about him? Did Pilate's wife know who Jesus was? How much did she know about him? Did she know he was innocent from the dream or from elsewhere?
Did Pilate's wife really expect her husband to do what she said? To change his mind? Had she ever "interfered" in his business as governor before? (And been successful?) What did she fear if Pilate didn't release Jesus? More bad dreams? Something worse like bad reality? Was she afraid something bad would happen to Pilate?
Maybe she hadn't done anything like this before. Maybe it was God trying to shock Pilate into doing the right thing from a totally unexpected source.
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