That is correct... Pontius Pilate "Pilate's Dream" from JCS.
What's crazy is I too compared the judges to Pontius Pilate. But I hadn't considered that this is Holy Week as well. Freaky...
Very freaky...the judges have "washed their hands" of her (impending) death by allowing time to elapse and by claiming that she is dying by her own will.
Sporkgoddess, JCS is my favorite play. Many of my friends and my kids have performed amazingly in it. I cry like a baby almost all the way through. The man who played Pilate was a good friend with great faith in God, and was extremely talented in performance and voice. And his "Pilate's Dream" and his rendition of it was the camel that broke my sobbing back.