Pilate's Wife and the Gentiles

Sedente autem Pilato pro tribunali misit ad illum uxor sua, dicens: Nihil tibi sit et justo iste. Species in ea gentium plebis est: quae jam fidelis eum, cum quo conversabatur, incredulum populum ad Christi fidem advocat. Quae quia ipsa multum sit passa pro Christo, in eamdem gloriam futurae spei illum eum quo conversabatur invitat. Denique Pilatus et manus lavit, et populo innocentem se a Domini sanguine esse testatus est: quia Judaeis suscipientibus in se ac filios suos fusi dominici sanguinis crimen, quotidie in confessionem fidei ablutus gentium populus demigrat. Sanctus Hilarius Pictaviensis, In Evangelium Matthaei Commentarius, Caput XXXIII Source: Migne PL 9.1072c-d

His wife sent to Pilate sitting on the tribunal saying, 'Have nothing to do with this righteous man.' 1 She who already had faith in Him is a type of the Gentile people, which when converted, calls an unbelieving people to faith in Christ. She who, because she had suffered much for Christ, invited him to the same glory of future hope in Him to whom she had converted. Thus Pilate washed his hands and bore witness to a people innocent of the blood of the Lord, because the Jews took upon themselves and their sons the crime of the blood of the Lord, and every day the Gentile people are cleansed in the confession of the faith. Saint Hilary of Poitiers, Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew, Chapter 33 1 Mt 27.19