It seems to me that Caiaphas was evil, and Pilate was the victim of a no-win situation that the high priests set up... so it bothers me that Pilate gets thousands of years of scorn, and Caiaphas skates. The soldiers were acting beyond Pilates orders, so it still seems like Pilate is a victim, not a monster.
I see Caiaphas as a typical entrenched politician and bureaucrat. A man who wanted to preserve his position and leadership who saw Jesus as a threat to his power. He cleverly manipulated Pilate into moving against Jesus claiming that unrest and rebellion would break out if Jesus was not dispatched. Pilate seems to have been motivated to preserve law and order and to crush any potential upstarts and rebellions. Of course the ultimate person who could have saved Jesus was Jesus Himself, who possessed powers far greater than anything Pilate or Caiaphas could ever conceived.
“...Caiaphas was evil...Caiaphas skates...”
Caiaphas is no doubt burning in a hell he could not imagine existed. Caiaphas was Satan’s stooge. Burn baby burn!
When Jesus said on the cross, ‘forgive them for they know not what they do’...I believe Caiaphas knew exactly what he was doing. God in the flesh on earth was a direct threat to his power and existence. Apply the ‘forgive them’ to the Romans, to the rabble in the streets...