Matthew 27 priests had handed Jesus over because they were jealous of his popularity, asks the crowd to choose between freeing a notorious prisoner known as Barabbas, or Jesus. The crowd, persuaded by the chief priests and elders, respond passionately, repeating "Let Him (Christ) be crucified!" Pilate, bewildered by this, asks the crowd for a reason for their choice. Instead, they continue to call ever more loudly for the crucifixion of Jesus. Pilate comes to see that he cannot reason with the crowd. His wife has had a disturbing dream and asks him to have "nothing to do with that just man".
Pontius Pilate in the Late Middle Ages. Other legendary versions of Pilate's death exist: Antoine de la Sale reported from a travel in Central Italy on some local traditions asserting that after death the body of Pontius Pilate was driven to a little lake near Vettore Peak (2478 m in the Sibillini Mountains) and plunged in. The lake, today, is still named Lago di Pilato. In the Cornish cycle of mystery plays, the "death of Pilate" forms a dramatic scene in the "Resurrexio Domini" cycle. More of Pilate's correspondence is found in the minor Pilate apocrypha, the "Anaphora Pilati" ("Report of Pilate"),