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Since this isn't a caucus thread, I'll point out there is quite a bit of error contained in this article. It looks like something you might find from any liberal mainline protestant 'scholar'.

First, it suggests at human authors of the scriptures, rather than it being the work of the Holy Spirit. "Did Luke and Mark also come across this verse but decide not to include it, not seeing its purpose?" "St Matthew brings Pilate’s wife on stage for one verse only, for a very simple reason, because he needs her for one verse only". The scriptures are THE word of God. Turn from false teachers who treat it as a human construct.

Pilate was used by God. His decision was not wrong. The author would seem to prefer a result that would strip us of the work of Christ on our behalf, and consign us to hell. " But Pilate does not listen, and comes to the wrong judgement"

Indeed, the author might spend some time reading the Catechism:

II. Inspiration and Truth of Sacred Scripture

105 God is the author of Sacred Scripture. “The divinely revealed realities, which are contained and presented in the text of Sacred Scripture, have been written down under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.”69

“For Holy Mother Church, relying on the faith of the apostolic age, accepts as sacred and canonical the books of the Old and the New Testaments, whole and entire, with all their parts, on the grounds that, written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, they have God as their author, and have been handed on as such to the Church herself.”70

106 God inspired the human authors of the sacred books. “To compose the sacred books, God chose certain men who, all the while he employed them in this task, made full use of their own faculties and powers so that, though he acted in them and by them, it was as true authors that they consigned to writing whatever he wanted written, and no more.”71

107 The inspired books teach the truth. “Since therefore all that the inspired authors or sacred writers affirm should be regarded as affirmed by the Holy Spirit, we must acknowledge that the books of Scripture firmly, faithfully, and without error teach that truth which God, for the sake of our salvation, wished to see confided to the Sacred Scriptures.”72

http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__PP.HTM

Be careful. Jesus himself says that the one who delivered him to Pilate is "guilty of the greater sin," and elsewhere that it would have been better for Judas had Judas not even been born. God doesn't need sins to do good things (like redeeming us), although he is able to turn sins into good things anyway.

Since the Blood of Christ has infinite merit, the Blood Jesus shed in his circumcision was sufficient to redeem all mankind. Of course, God knows all things, and so always knew that the Cross would happen. But that doesn't make crucifying an innocent man any less wrong.