Acts of Pilate between two sources of Acts and our Mark

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Acts of Pilate between two sources of Acts and our Mark

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Two Pure and Simple FACTS:
  • In the trial of Peter in Acts, no mention of Pilate.
  • In the trial of Paul in Acts, no mention of Pilate.
Therefore Acts of Pilate follow these two souces of Acts and precede our version of Mark.

Pilate had to be sanctified/christianized completely (via a distinct text: the Acts of Pilate) even before his appearance in Mark.

Hence, while proto-Mark had euhemerized Jesus in the indefinite past, Acts of Pilate euhemerized Jesus in a precise, recent date: sub Pontio Pilato.

Even before our canonical Mark.

Hence the correct chronology of the texts is:

Proto-Mark (without Pilate)
Peter/Acts (without Pilate)
Paul/Acts (without Pilate)
Marcion (without Pilate)
Acts of Pilate
Mark
Matthew
proto-John
Luke
John
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Re: Acts of Pilate between two souces of Acts and our Mark

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Note the curious coincidence:
What I have called Peter/Acts and Paul/Acts are respectively two apologies by Peter and by Paul before their Jewish accusers.

Acts of Pilate could very well be a trial where Pilate was the person who had to be judged, before the Emperor, about his being a Christian.

While Festus could say
Instead, it was something about their religion and a dead man named Jesus, who Paul insists is alive.

(Acts 25:19)

...now the accuser of Pilate could well say:

Instead, it was something about their religion and a dead man named Jesus, who Pilate crucified and now insists is alive.

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Note that Celsus denies that the risen Jesus appeared before the judge Pilate.

By the time of Celsus, the Pagan polemists had already altered the original Acts of Pilate, by transforming Pilate in an enemy of Jesus the evildoer.
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A reason why the Acts of Apostles don't talk about the trial of Paul in Rome is because of its Marcionite implications: the idea that, for the first time in the history of the world, the news about a new god Jesus appear publicly — i.e. by a public trial before the Emperor — in the world.

The Acts of Pilate had already the news about Jesus introduced in Rome before the Emperor by Pilate: a marcionite idea.

Hence, this is further clue supporting my view, that Pilate was introduced the first time by Acts of Pilate, and known only by the last editor of Acts of Apostles, not by Peter/Acts (=the pre-Gospel source of Acts about the trial of Peter) and not by Paul/Acts (= the pre-Gospel source of Acts about the trial of Paul).
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This point above raises a contradiction with my previous views: if Pilate's question in the Gospels ("Are you the king of the Jews?") served to confirm the Jewishness of Jesus, then why was Acts of Pilate a marcionite work?

Both the claims are true:
  • In our Gospels, it is a fact that Pilate serves to condemn Jesus as the Jewish Messiah, against Marcion.
  • It is a fact that, in Acts of Pilate, Jesus is a new (= marcionite) god introduced before the Emperor by Pilate.
Marcion, by writing the Acts of Pilate, reached two goals:
  • Jesus is a new god before the Emperor etc;
  • Marcionism is not a threat to Rome.
Against Marcion, Justin addresses the Emperor: please punish only the marcionites, not us catholics.

Following Justin, the catholicized gospels claim that:
  • Jesus is not a new god, he is condemned as the Jewish Messiah
  • Catholicism is not a threat to Rome.
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In definitive, Marcion as the first man on earth who connected Jesus and Pilate, together.

Hence, again the question: why Pilate?

a technical reason:
  • the Peter/Acts and the Paul/Acts had already fixed respectively the trials of Peter and Paul under Gamaliel and Festus (Chris Albert Wells's explanation): before Gamaliel and Festus, there was Pilate in the historical record. ET PILATUS FUIT.
I don't know other better explanations.
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