Pilatos identifies the named official who questions Jesus, issues decisions, and receives requests concerning Jesus’ body.

The term consistently identifies the same named official across scenes involving Jesus: he questions and evaluates Jesus, responds to the crowd’s demands, and later receives requests concerning Jesus’ body. Its forms mark him as actor, recipient, or person before whom events occur, rather than indicating different lexical meanings.

1. The named official in Jesus-related proceedings · dominant

   The nominative form identifies the official acting in the proceedings: in John 18:29 the APB renders him coming out to ask what accusation is brought, and in John 19:12 it renders him seeking to release Jesus. Other case forms identify him as the person to whom Jesus is delivered or from whom permission is sought, as in Matthew 27:2 and John 19:38.

   John 18:29John 19:12Matthew 27:2John 19:38Luke 23:24Mark 15:43

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB normally presents the name as “Pilate,” including where the supplied forms place him as subject, recipient, or object of a preposition. In Luke 3:1 and 1 Timothy 6:13, it expands the name to “Pontius Pilate”.