Legion near Judea at time of Jesus

[LonginusXXI]

And everything always refers to Pilates troops, etc. Its hard to find anything identifying the military unit present there. Just a thought, but perhaps all Pilate had there was some auxilia and his own guard. And maybe this centurion belong to one of them? Auxilia or his guard? I say, the province of Judea appears to be not as volatile at this time as other areas of the empire so why would he need any more military than that. Just trying to help.

The Samaritan troops were pretty undisciplined, disregarding Pilate's order to use clubs and whips to disperse the crowd in a demonstration. So I think Pilate would be BEGGING for legion troops.

Also there was the issue of an insurrection caused by Barabbas. I think a vexillation from the nearest legion, (the 10th Fretensis in Antioch or the 12th Fulminata in Raphanea) would have gone to Judea.