Who was the man whose life was turned upside down by an encounter with a strange rabbi from Galilee? A book

Who was the man whose life was turned upside down by an encounter with a strange rabbi from Galilee?  A book

Christians mention him every Sunday at mass, somewhat absentmindedly and certainly not with gratitude: Pontius Pilate, under whose government Jesus was crucified. But who was Pilate? Little is known about him, he seems like a splinter in history, one of many who have marked a particular moment in the passage of time. He was certainly a tormented man, we understand it from the Gospels, especially from that of John who reports the dialogue he had with that strange rabbi of Galilee whom the crowd wanted to put to death even at the cost of seeing the brigand Barabbas spared. Pilate doesn't understand why, he despises Jerusalem, its swirling chaos, its incomprehensible rituals, the heat of ethnic and religious nationalism that questions the supreme and indefectible authority of Rome day after day. He is better off in Cesarea, on the sea, where he has time to think about dead friends, distant roots, the whirlwind of events that brought him there, in the Praetorian Palace. Among the happy memories of him (few) there are his remorse, a constant of his existence, from the conflictual relationship with his father Gaius to the clashes with his wife Claudia.

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