Matthew 27:19 Meaning While He Was Sitting on the Judgment

Pilate on the judgment seat is reasoning power in a person, the part that weighs outer facts and passes sentence on what it sees. His wife is the deeper feeling nature, closer to the source, and her warning is the intuition that the reasoning mind is about to condemn something it should not touch. The just man is the imaginal act, the new conception a person is forming, which is innocent of the case being built against it.

Her dream is where the deeper knowing arrives, because a person is worked upon most from within, not from the surface. She suffers a warning. What she pays is the cost of letting reason overrule imagination. A person creates his world by what he imagines and forfeits it the moment he trusts the evidence of the senses instead.

While the men in power went about their business, a woman was disturbed in her sleep. A dream had told her that something deeply wrong was being done, and it shook her enough to send word and try to stop it.

Something in her, working below waking thought, had grasped what the daytime mind refused to admit. The dream did not invent its warning. It saw the situation clearly and put into words the truth no one in authority wanted to hear. Her plea was brushed aside and the wrong went ahead, but being ignored did not make the dream mistaken. It had seen what the others would not let themselves see.