WHO WAS PONTIUS PILATE?

Little is known of Pontius Pilate's personal history. After  Herod the Great's son Archelaus was removed from being King over Judea. Provincial Governors were appointed by the Emperor to rule the Province. Pilate being the 5th of these. Tiberius Caesar appointed him in 26 CE, and his rule lasted 10 years.
His clan name Pontius indicates a relationship to  Pontius Telesimus, a prominent general of the Samnite people in a Mountainous Section of Southern Italy. His cognomen, or family name Pilate, indicates descent from a military man if the name comes from the Latin "Pilum," meaning "Javelin." Other meaning of the family derives from the Latin "Pileus," a cap usually worn by slaves who were given their freedom.
The only period of his life to receive historical notice is that of his Judean Governorship. He was appointed as the Roman Governor or Procurator of Judea, 26-36 CE. (Matt.27:2). As the Emperor 's representative, the Governor  exercised full control of the Province.
During his time, the Pharisees and the Scribes of the Jewish people had rejected the first Christ as their King and His preachings and the coming of the Gospel. They chose rather to be a subject unto Tiberius Caesar, who, in the process of taking the Jews as his subjects, broke the Jewish Law against graven images. Later, the same Tiberius Caesar destroyed his own Senate. This is a lesson to the future generations of the sort of punishment that come from the hand of the same individual, when we challenge God's Power.
The Jew's Laws were violated when Pontius Pilate, being the Roman Governor of Judea during Jesus' earthly ministry (Luke 3:1), brought into Jerusalem the Emperor's images attached to the Roman standards, and when he put shields bearing the Emperor's name in the former palace of Herod in Jerusalem. As the Emperor's representative, the Governor exercised full control of the Province. His misappropriation of Temple funds to finance the building of an aqueduct in Jerusalem provoked a riot that left many Jews dead. After a massacre of the Samaritans, who were  deluded by an impostor into assembling at Mount Gerizim in hopes of uncovering "sacred treasures" supposedly hidden there by Moses, Pilate was summoned to Rome to appear before Tiberius Caesar and put Marcellus in his place. Tiberius died  in 37 CE while Pilate was still on his way to Rome. He was not reappointed as Governor after that event. He was deposed, then banished to the Town of Vienne in Dauphiny, and at length was obliged to commit suicide during the reign of Tiberius' successor Gaius (Caligula).
Tiberius Caesar was informed in detail, by the letters from Pontius Pilate, about the doings of Christ, His Miracles, Resurrection, and Ascension into Heaven. How He was received as God of many.
Tiberius Caesar was moved because of the divine status that Christ possessed and proposed to the whole Senate of Rome, to have and adore Christ as God. They refused to do so because it was contrary to the Law of the Romans. But, since they were contented with the Emperor and with the way he reigned  over them, but, not contented with the Preaching and Gospels of the meek Son of God, they entrapped themselves in a false wave of Religion. The sequence of events that came after, because of the False Religion and the rejection of Christ, and the preference of choosing it rather than the True Way of Christ, God did stir up their own Emperors against their own Senators, that they themselves were almost all destroyed and the whole city for almost 300 years.
Tiberius Caesar, who, for a great part of his reign was a "moderate and tolerable" Prince of the Roman World, afterward was to them a "sharp and heavy Tyrant," who neither favored his own mother, nor spared his nephews nor the Princes of the City, such as were his own counsellors, of whom, being as many as 20, he left not past 2 or 3 alive.
After the death of Tiberius, succeded Caligula, Claudios Nero, and Domitius Nero, which were likewise scourges to the Senate and the people of Rome.
The one inscription known bearing his name (and that of Tiberius) was found in 1961 at Caesarea, the Seat of Roman Government in Judea. The inscription says that he was a "Praefectus Judaeae," a commander of auxiliary troops (500-1000 soldiers).
The Gospel accounts depict Pilate as an equitable but weak Governor. He had the power to impose the death sentence. The Sanhedrin could accept the imposition, but the Governor's ratification had to be obtained in order to pass it by the Jewish Court to be valid. (Matt. 26:65; John 18:31).
Pilate's inner goal was to achieve positive relations between the Roman Government and Christianity, (Mark 15:1-15), but this achievement was not upon the Rock, Jesus Christ's Ministry and His True Church, instead, it was based upon Worldly Religion in which the uttermost of the Devil powers and all his malice, was able to continue.
The Jewish leaders ask Pilate for Jesus' death sentence on the grounds of "treason."(Luke 23:1-2). After interrogation, Pilate pronounced Jesus innocent; yet he yields to the crowd's demands for Jesus' execution. Pilato acquiesced to satisfy the crowd in order to stop a riot, to silence the people's pleas for Jesus' death, if he wanted to continue as Governor and affirming his loyalty to the Emperor, instead of Christ. (Matt.27:24; Luke 23:18-25; John 19: 12-13).
After the Killing of the Son of God, additional incidents happened in order to shift the "responsibility for Jesus' death" away from Pilate.
In Matthew 27: 19-25 Pilate, heeding his wife's advice, disassociates himself from Jesus and "washes his hands;" then the crowds claim responsibility for his death.
In Luke 23:6-12 Pilate sends Jesus to Herod to be tried, who then returns Him to Pilate without condemnation, thereby confirming Pilate's judgment of innocence.
Pilate's distaste for the promoters of the crime was reflected in the sign he had placed over the impaled Jesus, identifying Him as the "King of the Jews," as well as his refusal to change it, saying:"What I have written I have written."(John 19:19-22).