Pontius Pilate MBTI Personality Type
Personality
What personality type is Pontius Pilate? Pontius Pilate is an ESTJ personality type in MBTI, 6w5 - sx/so - 639 in Enneagram, in Big 5, LSE in Socionics.
First of all, we've got little to no clear contemporary information about his life and personality and thus, I'm going to type him based on the few available biographical facts/sources. He was really against judaism and anything that contradicted his thoughts in general. Philo of Alexandria refers to him as "a man of an inflexible and hard character, without any consideration." Further on, Philo continues saying that his government was full of "Corruptibility, robberies, violence, offenses, brutalities, continuous sentences without prior process, and unlimited cruelty". I could go years writing about basically the same things about him: a government flooded with authoritarianism. A tyrant with a clear Te dom rather than Se dom; he liked to have the world in his hands, really organized when it came to clean his personal image, yet dictatorial when someone showed the slightest signs of disagreeing with him. Although he could be an ENTJ, I decided to type him as an ESTJ. I don't see Se in his function stack, but rather a Te-Ne loop: he didn't usually go right into action and impulsiveness to achieve something, but rather had many ideas at once that helped him manipulate the situation at his will. Not to mention that it really doesn't make too much sense an ESFP with wing 5 enneagram.
Biography
Pontius Pilate (Latin: Pontius Pilatus) was the fifth prefect of the Roman province of Judaea, serving under Emperor Tiberius from AD 26/27 to 36/37. In Christian tradition, he is known for adjudicating on the trial and crucifixion of Jesus. The sources for Pilate's life are an inscription known as the Pilate Stone, which confirms his historicity and establishes his title as prefect; a brief mention by Tacitus; Philo of Alexandria; Josephus; the four canonical gospels; the Acts of the Apostles; the First Epistle to Timothy; the Gospel of Nicodemus; the Gospel of Marcion; and other apocryphal works.
