Acts of Pilate
Anonymous / composite
Chapter 9
About this work
A pseudonymous narrative associated with the Gospel of Nicodemus that expands Jesus’s trial, crucifixion, resurrection testimony, and in some forms the descent to the dead.
- Author
- Anonymous / composite
- Traditional attribution
- Pilate’s official records; later associated with Nicodemus
- Date
- Main form c. mid-4th century; later accretions
- Origin
- Unknown
- Genre
- Apocryphon
Several related textual forms circulate under this title, so the precise witness and date must be verified.
And Pilate, calling Nicodemus and the twelve men who