How to Interpret Dreams and Visions Perry Stone

O ne of the most interesting, yet often overlooked, warning dreams in the Bible involved a wife who gave a warning to her husband about his treatment of Jesus. During the public trial of Christ, a raging mob of religious zealots was demanding Christ’s execution. The biblical narrative begins with Pilate, a man appointed by Rome to be the governor in the region of Judea. Before any death penalty could be enacted, Pilate would need to condemn Christ. Just as Pilate was preparing to judge Christ and condemn Him to be put to death, Pilate’s wife sent a message saying that she had a troubling dream of Christ that showed Him to be an innocent man. No detail is given in the Scripture as to what she dreamed or why she “suffered many things.” The suffering was not a physical pain but was a mental or an emotional stress that she experienced as a result of her dream. In Scripture she is simply called “Pilate’s wife,” but church tradition says that she was a believer in Christ and was later named as Saint Procula, or, as some suggest, Saint Claudia. The early father Origen, in his Homilies on Matthew , suggests that she became a Christian. There is a suggestion that in Paul’s last letter to Timothy (2 Tim. 4:21), the Claudia he alludes to may refer to Pilate’s wife, who became a believer. The Eastern Orthodox and Ethiopian Orthodox churches celebrate her in the church each year. Hundreds of years later, a letter written in Latin says that she actually sought out Christ to heal her son Pilo’s crippled foot.1 Did Pilate pay attention to his wife’s warning? Apparently something moved him not to condemn Jesus. In fact, Pilate publicly said that Christ was “just” (Matt. 27:24). When the