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Excerpt from The Confession of Pontius Pilate There is, on the northern side of the Rhone, in the south of France, near the City of Vienne, a monumental relic very striking in its situation. This monument is believed to be the sepulchre of Pontius Pilate under whose former government of Judea our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ was crucified. Near this city is a mountain which, in the middle ages, was called by the name of Pilatus. Pilate, as is well known, was deposed from his governorship over Judea and exiled to Vienne, then the chief city in Gaul, one of the provinces of the Roman Empire. Early in the past century, some workmen, while removing stones out of a cavern, discovered a manuscript written in Latin. This manuscript, though not an old one, tells of the last days of Pilate in his exile, and of his suicide. It also gives a very interesting account, not unlike that recorded in the New Testament, of the sufferings of Jesus Christ. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.