Pilate's Wife: Warning Against Injustice to the Just Man

His wife sent unto him saying, 'Have thou nothing to do with that just man' (Matthew 27:19). This intervention—born of her troubling dream—stands as a threefold testimony: the testimony of women to Christ, the testimony of dreams to Christ, and the testimony of suffering to Christ. She declared, 'I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him.'

The Victorian preacher G. T. Coster observed: 'The wife failed; but it was well to have tried.' Her dream functioned as a divine obstacle placed against the completion of sin itself. D. O. Watt, M.A., perceived in it a sign that continuance in sin depends upon injustice done to Jesus Christ.

Consider the paradox: righteousness appears demanding, yet evil requires dismantling every restraint—casting off the law of Elohim, stifling desires for true happiness, breaking from godly influences. The beaten path of right conduct whispers, 'I am the way; you must not leave me.' Before yielding to evil, one must overcome conscience, fear of consequence, and the weight of relationships standing in awe of the Christ of God.

Pilate's wife recognized this just man deserved protection. Her warning word—unheeded though it was—remains the voice of conscience speaking across centuries. To ignore such warnings is to choose the steeper descent willingly, overcoming obstacles that should have restrained us.