These fragments I have shored against my ruins. T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land And he withdrew himself into the wilderness. Luke 5:16 Halfway through the Nicene Creed, we encounter a strange name: ‘Crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate’. Pilate who? An obscure Roman prefect, mentioned by his Jewish contemporary Philo of Alexandria, a philosopher and diplomat, as a wicked opponent of the Jews? An evil administrator who ruthlessly killed thousands of Jews and Samaritans,