Christ before Pilate; The Resurrection 

In the first of these two scenes from a Passion series, Christ, crowned with thorns and with hands bound, is presented to Pilate by a soldier and two additional captors. This treatment of the subject derives from the account in Matthew (27:19–24), the only Gospel that mentions both Pilate washing his hands and the presence of Pilate’s wife, who urges her husband to extrica...