Editing Pontius Pilate (section)

====Eastern Christianity====
Pilate was also the subject of legends in Eastern Christianity. The Byzantine chronicler [[George Kedrenos]] ({{circa|1100}}) wrote that Pilate was condemned by Caligula to die by being left in the sun enclosed in the skin of a freshly slaughtered cow, together with a chicken, a snake, and a monkey.{{sfn|Demandt|2012|pp=102–103}} In a legend from medieval [[Rus' (region)|Rus']], Pilate attempts to save [[Saint Stephen]] from being executed; Pilate, his wife and children have themselves baptized and bury Stephen in a gilded silver coffin. Pilate builds a church in the honor of Stephen, Gamaliel, and Nicodemus, who were martyred with Stephen. Pilate dies seven months later.{{sfn|Demandt|2012|p=106}} In the medieval [[Slavonic Josephus]], an [[Old Church Slavonic]] translation of Josephus, with legendary additions, Pilate kills many of Jesus's followers but finds Jesus innocent. After Jesus heals Pilate's wife of a fatal illness, the Jews bribe Pilate with 30 talents to crucify Jesus.{{sfn|Demandt|1999|pp=69–70}}