Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt is a world celebrity, perhaps the most read and played on stage by a French author. He is a brilliant and at the same time profound writer who is concerned with fundamental questions of morality and the meaning of life, the theme of death, religion. The reader is offered his novel “The Gospel of Pilate” in a version substantially revised by the author. “In a few hours, they’ll come for me .. The carpenter gently strokes the cross on which tomorrow I am destined to shed blood. They're thinking of taking me by surprise...and I'm waiting for them." Three days later, on Easter morning, Pontius Pilate begins the strangest investigation in human history. He tries to establish where the body of the crucified Yeshua went, for it is impossible to believe that the corpse disappeared without a trace and people saw the deceased alive.