Ping!
I think it’s a bit of a stretch. The “wife had a dream” trope is found in Tacitus.
I totally disagree. If Pilate had listened to her then we would not have been redeemed. I suspect that her dream was not of God.
It is an interesting passage and I’ve often wondered it’s meaning. My own take is that it just demonstrated that Pilate had every reason to release Jesus:
1. Pilate’s interrogation of Jesus demonstrated to him that Jesus was NOT a threat to the Roman government, nor was He guilty of anything deserving death.
2. Pilate’s investigation into the whole matter demonstrated to him that the only reason Jesus was brought before him was because of jealousy by the religious leaders - he knew their accusations were a fraud.
They wanted to kill Jesus for blasphemy, but they couldn’t by Roman law - only Pilate could invoke the death penalty. To get that, they needed a charge that would make Jesus guilty of some crime against Rome for which death was the penalty. So, they made up the story about Jesus speaking against Caesar. Pilate saw through that fairly quickly.
3. Pilate’s wife’s warning to him regarding Jesus was just one more bit of evidence that Jesus was completely innocent of any crime against God or man.
4. Pilate WAS going to release Jesus, but because the crowd had been whipped up into a frenzy against Jesus (by the religious leaders), he caved and turned over a completely innocent man over to be executed in one of the most horrendous ways imaginable.
All of this was to demonstrate that Jesus was the sinless, perfect Lamb of God, who took on the sins of the world by taking on Himself the guilt of our sin and enduring the wrath of God that we justly deserved. Only He, as God in the flesh, could remove our guilt by His guiltless, sinless life, His sacrificing of Himself in our behalf.
Jesus knew that he had to die. I believe that Pilate’s decision was given to him by the God he did not recognize.