Welcome to Article 3 of the first book in the Hidden Heroes series.
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In This Article:
Chapter 9: Daughters of Jerusalem
Chapter 7: Pilate’s Wife
A Disturbing Dream and a Silenced Warning
1. Opening Story: “I Had the Strangest Dream About You…”
There’s a particular kind of dream that lingers.
Most dreams evaporate as soon as you open your eyes. A few hang around the edges of your day—so vivid, so unsettling, so heavy that you can’t shake them. You catch yourself saying to someone you trust, “I had the strangest dream about you…”
Sometimes those dreams are just the brain sorting out yesterday’s noise.
Sometimes they feel like more—a warning, a nudge, a flashing yellow light in the soul.
Now imagine waking up from a dream so troubling that you:
Feel it in your body
Can’t focus on anything else
Are convinced it is about one specific person and one specific situation
And the person at the center of it is currently standing trial in a court your spouse oversees.
That’s Pilate’s wife.
On the day Jesus stands before Pontius Pilate, she has “suffered many things” in a dream because of Him. While priests scheme and crowds shout and Pilate weighs his options, she sends an urgent message into the courtroom:
“Have nothing to do with that righteous man…”
It is a small sentence aimed at a massive injustice. A quiet voice of conscience pushed up against a roaring system.
Pilate will ultimately ignore her warning.
The crucifixion will go forward.
But her dream and her courage to speak place her among the hidden heroes of the passion story—those who, in their own limited way, tried to stand between Jesus and the machinery of sin and fear.
