This sounds like "The Report of Pontius Pilate; sent to Tiberius Caesar in Rome," copyrighted 2008 by Michael A. Shea, from www.GodTheOriginalIntent.com, based on a footnote citing William Hone's "The Apocryphal Books of the New Testament", pp. 275-277, David McKay Publishers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1901. In it, Pilate purports to avow all the events recorded in the New Testament. (It sounded familiar. I thought I had a copy, and found it.)
Something published in 1901 is certainly not a new-found secret. And I have no idea what was originally put in Hone's book, or where it came from (if it came from anywhere). Therefore, I have to regard this as clickbait hopium, until and unless anyone can authenticate it. (I went to Shea's website, which seems to be a thoroughly Christian-oriented resource for the MAGA-inclined, but couldn't find this 2008 document upon a cursory search.)
The letter is great reading. Very uplifting. But fact or fiction?
This sounds like "The Report of Pontius Pilate; sent to Tiberius Caesar in Rome," copyrighted 2008 by Michael A. Shea, from www.GodTheOriginalIntent.com, based on a footnote citing William Hone's "The Apocryphal Books of the New Testament", pp. 275-277, David McKay Publishers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1901. In it, Pilate purports to avow all the events recorded in the New Testament. (It sounded familiar. I thought I had a copy, and found it.)
Something published in 1901 is certainly not a new-found secret. And I have no idea what was originally put in Hone's book, or where it came from (if it came from anywhere). Therefore, I have to regard this as clickbait hopium, until and unless anyone can authenticate it. (I went to Shea's website, which seems to be a thoroughly Christian-oriented resource for the MAGA-inclined, but couldn't find this 2008 document upon a cursory search.)
The letter is great reading. Very uplifting. But fact or fiction?
Yes, thanks, it was a pretty good pseudepigraph as they go.