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Gospel Reading - The dream of Pilate's Wife

A letter, purportedly written in Latin by Pilate's wife from "a little Gallic mountain town" several years after Pilate left Jerusalem, was first published in 1865 in Slovenian in the Catholic journal Kmetijske in rokodelske novice, volume 23, number 15, pages 117-120. It says it was translated from French by Luiza Pesjak, Slovene writer, poet and translator. This is quite long but very thought provoking and I felt I should share it..

¹⁵Now the governor’s custom was to release one Jewish prisoner each year during the Passover celebration — anyone they wanted. ¹⁶This year there was a particularly notorious criminal in jail named Barabbas, ¹⁷and as the crowds gathered before Pilate’s house that morning he asked them, “Which shall I release to you — Barabbas, or Jesus your Messiah?”^{a 18}For he knew very well that the Jewish leaders had arrested Jesus out of envy because of his popularity with the people.

¹⁹Just then, as he was presiding over the court, Pilate’s wife sent him this message: “Leave that good man alone; for I had a terrible nightmare concerning him last night.”

1. Literally, “Jesus who is called Christ.”