Among the commissions that Correa made for the former monastery of the Bernardine fathers at Santa María la Real de Valdeiglesias are a group of three panels with scenes from the Passion of Christ. Their representations in circular compositions and many stylistic similarities indicate that they belonged to the same set. These three panels depict three successive stories: Pilate washing his Hands, The Crowning with Thorns (P669) and an Ecce Homo (P670). The episode depicted on this panel of Pilate washing his Hands is narrated in the Gospel (Matthew 27:24–25). It is additionally recorded in an apocryphal Gospel (Nicodemus 9:4).

This scene takes place in the palace of the Roman procurator. In the foreground, a soldier accusingly points at Jesus. This soldier wears an ochre Roman leather helmet and breastplate. Correa borrowed this model from Juan de Borgoña. It is a figure that he employs in the panels that accompany this one and that he utilises extensively in other compositions throughout his oeuvre. In the centre, another soldier with a bristly face and grey beard wears a halberd and blue armour. He holds the rope with which Christ has been imprisoned. Correa depicts the Saviour with a crown of thorns. He also makes use of a cruciferous halo, a rope around his neck and drops of blood from the thorns that reach the rope. His dispirited demeanour suggests a submissive expression of acceptance of the divine plan. Behind Jesus, there is an old man with very slim features and a sorrowful expression who wears a cap and a red cloak. He likely represents one of his followers. The different textures of the clothing—velvet, wool and leather—as well as the different finishes of the metals, the flesh tones, hair and other details, are all executed with great skill. The play on light and darkness emphasises all the qualities and leaves the scene in semi-darkness. Barely discernible in the background are a curtain-like veil behind the court on the left, a column, and part of an arch on the right.

Cortés, Susana Ocaña, Estrella, 'Juan Correa de Vivar. Pilatos lavándose las manos' En:. Juan Correa de Vivar, c. 1510-1566 : maestro del Renacimiento español., Toledo, Sociedad Don Quijote de Conmemoraciones culturales de Castilla la Mancha, 2010, p.122-125 n.12