'What manner of man was Pontius Pilate? Historically, we know little of him except that he was a senior Roman civil servant who happened to be Governor of the Province of Judea at the time of the Crucifixion. In this poignant story, Dale Collins, famous Australian author and keen student of the Scriptures, penetrates the mask of the stern official and gives us a glimpse of the human being behind it.' (p. 16)