[WFTR]

Are you calling the Gospel accounts “forgeries?” You’re welcome to hold and state that belief, but I want to be sure that I understand you correctly. I don’t think anything in the whole account elevates Pilate’s ancient Roman paganism. I’m just saying that he didn’t see Jesus as having broken the Roman law.

[familyop]

"Are you calling the Gospel accounts 'forgeries?'"

Those are often delivered to Christians along with libels from the Acts of Pilate, Emmerich's imaginings, and the like.

Caiaphas was appointed by the Romans and dismissed along with Pilate (his buddy) about ten years later. That, and what it means, is not so hard to understand, unless one is blinded by metaphors and allegories (so-called "spiritual" language).

The same tactic of using puppets is implemented by Rome today, as we see from the article above this thread.