I sense you are a learned man, DG. Pontious Pilate got a bum rap for his passing the buck on one minor detention case of a rabble rouser from Nazareth. What only learned men will know is that PP earned his post of Roman governor of the province of Judea on the strength of his accomplishments and service to the Republic, devising the calisthenics training that made the Romans Legions a formidable force on the battlefield. The name of his exercise regime? Pilates, of course!