It is likely that Pontius Pilate was married. It is possible that his wife accompanied him to his post as governor of Judaea (26–36/37 CE); while governors were forbidden to bring their wives to their posts under the Republic and Augustus, the law was later repealed by the Senate. Jean-Pierre Lémonon says this most likely took place during the reign of Tiberius, while Alexander Demandt gives 20 CE as the year that the rule was abolished. However, the only early mention of Pilate's wife is a single sentence in the Gospel of Matthew: