‘Message from your wife, sir.’ ‘Not now.’ ‘She says: “Have nothing to do with this just man”’
Frank Kermode: A Pointless Book about Pilate, 15 April 1999
“... and fanciful attempt to consolidate the existing accounts. Claudia Procula also became a saint. Wroe, apparently accepting the authenticity of Matthew’s version, would like to know more about Claudia’s dream, and, as is her custom, has a guess at its import. The other and, at any rate in the West, stronger tradition, is so far from thinking of Pilate as ... ”
