I wonder if there is some other feature in common to both, Pilate and Judas.
And surely it is the following:
43 And immediately, even as Jesus said this, Judas, one of the twelve disciples, arrived with a crowd of men armed with swords and clubs. They had been sent by the leading priests, the teachers of religious law, and the elders. 44 The traitor, Judas, had given them a prearranged signal: “You will know which one to arrest when I greet him with a kiss. Then you can take him away under guard.” 45 As soon as they arrived, Judas walked up to Jesus. “Rabbi!” he exclaimed, and gave him the kiss.
15 Very early in the morning the leading priests, the elders, and the teachers of religious law—the entire high council —met to discuss their next step. They bound Jesus, led him away, and took him to Pilate, the Roman governor.
2 Pilate asked Jesus, “Are you the king of the Jews?”
Jesus replied, “You have said it.
2 Pilate asked Jesus, “Are you the king of the Jews?”
Jesus replied, “You have said it.
In both the cases there is an entire Group (scribes & pharisees) who wants by a third person (respectively Judas and Pilate) the recognition of the true identity of Jesus.
From the promise of Jusad addressed to his instigators :
...it is possible to conclude that this promise will fail to be fulfilled: the scribes and pharisees don't know who is really Jesus, even if Judas is able to point him in a physical (only apparently physical?) sense.You will know...
(NOTE EN PASSANT: it is curious that in Mark there is no answer by Jesus to Judas: evidently that answer (basically: ''so do you betray me?'') was put on the mouth of Jesus by the later evangelists, so ardent to deny the embarrassing fact that, in Mark, Judas was unable to recognize Jesus. Again, was this so because in Mark Jesus had only apparently a body?)
But then also Pilate has the same function of Judas: Jesus is put before to him to verify that at least Pilate can have success where already Judas had failed: to allow a recognition of the true Jesus.
This time Pilate is more astute than Judas: he addresses a question to Jesus. But Jesus replies enigmatically. Basically he doesn't add knowledge to the knowledge of which Pilate is already in possession (that Jesus was the ''king of the Jews''). So also Pilate failed.
I confess that all this seems pure marcionism (please don't confuse my definition of marcionism with the 'marcionitism' of Secret Alias).