Pontius Pilate (Empath stories)

Pontius Pilate is a character whom the Smurfs came across during their time-traveling journeys in The Lost Year in the EMPATH: The Luckiest Smurf story series. He was the governor of Judea before whom the high priests brought Jesus Christ to be judged for blasphemy, and although Pilate did not find any basis for a charge against Jesus, he was forced to satisfy the demands of the crowd by having Jesus beaten thirty-nine times with whips and then crucified.