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Letter of Pilate to Claudius A noncanonical letter, in which Pilate purportedly blames the crucifixion of Jesus on the Jews and not on himself. This letter is likely the earliest of the Pilate literature, though it is misdirected “to Claudius,” which is later corrected in the Letter of Pilate to Tiberius (Klauck, 97). Both Tertullian and Eusebius acknowledge a correspondence sent from Pilate to the emperor, and it is likely this early text to which they refer (by the corrected name “to Tiberius”; Tertullian, Apology 5.2 and 21.24; Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History, 2.2).

This Letter of Pilate to Claudius appears in the Latin version of Tishchendorf’s Christ’s Descent into Hell; the Greek version of this same letter is found in the Acts of Peter and Paul and the Gospel of Nicodemus (Elliott, Apocryphal New Testament, 205–6).

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