Pilate describes great noise and darkness at Golgotha

Below from Acta Pilati (Pilates report to Caesar)

BEGINS WITH:

"To Tiberius Caesar, Emperor of Rome. Noble Sovereign, Greeting: The events of the last few days in my province have been of such a character that I will give the details in full as they occurred,

"A loud clamor was heard proceeding from Golgotha, which, borne on the winds, seemed to announce an agony such as was never heard by mortal ears. Dark clouds lowered over the pinnacle of the temple, and setting over the city covered it with a veil. So dreadful were the signs that men saw both in the heavans and on the earth that Dionysius the Aeropagite is reported to have exclaimed, "Either the author of nature is suffering or the universe is falling apart."


PILATE'S CONCLUDING remarks in his report to Caesar:

I am almost ready to say, as did Manlius at the cross, "Truly this was the Son of God".