David Friedrich Strauss believed, perhaps, as Ferdinand Baur surmised, to transfer guilt from Pilate to the Jewish leaders, a view recently revived by Maurice Casey, who repeatedly charges John with “rewriting history”?15 Did John merely imagine Jesus’ interchange with Pilate, as James Dunn argues in his recent book Jesus Remembered?16 Is Andrew Lincoln correct in his contention that it is “not plausible to defend any consistent or detailed one-to-one correspondence between John’s narrative and