25:11 I appeal to Caesar [Καίσαρα ἐπικαλοῦμαι]. It is another of the many historical ironies of the Christian message (→5:3–4) that of all the famous ancient Romans—Julius Caesar or Cicero or Vergil—none has achieved even nearly the universal name recognition of an otherwise obscure provincial gauleiter named Pontius Pilate, who has the distinction—which he shares with, of all people, the Blessed Virgin Mary (→1:14), and with no other human creature—of