CLAUDIA, THE WIFE OF PONTIUS PILATE

(Taken from Matthew 27:19)

“Have nothing to do with that just man: for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him.”

This was the admonition we learn that the wife of Pontius Pilate gave her husband regarding his involvement with Jesus of Nazareth. Who was this woman, what did she dream, what did she witness, what did she think and what happened in her life because of the events of which she and her husband were a part?

The time is around 33 AD and the trial and crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth has just taken place. Was she one of the eye witnesses to this? The Greek Orthodox Church and the Coptic Church of Ethiopia celebrate Claudia with a feast day, believing that she also became a believer and that her ‘life passed in peace.”

Claudia comes before us, telling what she may have witnessed, what she may have seen and what she might have come to believe.