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Letter of Tiberius to Pilate A supposed reply letter from the emperor to the condemned Pilate, in response to the Letter of Pilate to Tiberius. This Greek text is from around the 11th century and is closely affiliated with the Greek recension of the Pilate Cycle’s core text, the Acts of Pilate (Elliott, Apocryphal New Testament, 224; James, Apocryphal New Testament, 156). Despite the Greek roots of this legend, the Letter of Tiberius to Pilate portrays Pilate as a criminal, as the Western church tradition has traditionally done and as some of the other texts in the Pilate Cycle do (Avenging of the Savior; Death of Pilate). In this letter, Pilate is killed in prison by the hunting arrow of the emperor. This noncanonical letter was never widely authoritative for the early church, nor could it have been based on its late date.

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