Q and A: Did the resurrected Jesus appear to Pilate and Caiaphas?

The short answer is no!
There is this false premise that Jesus' resurrection was a zombie-like re-agitation where he continues on after being crucified, dead and partly bodily decomposed. If re-livened, he is supposed to retain his experience and memory from before and thus it would be the most natural thing to go and triumphantly show himself before those who took part in his suffering and killing. The truth is that Jesus was resurrected by God the Father by a way of reverting the whole ordeal and relocating Jesus in another timeframe of causality where he did not experience it and therefore can't even remember it. In other words he found himself awaken not in a tomb but in Gethsemane garden. Why would he go to show up before Pilate and Sanhedrin if he did not remember/experience having met them in the first place and later being crucified? What would he tell them on such occasion? That "he had to be crucified for the scriptures to fulfil"? These things he told only to disciples as part of the overall teaching cycle. Please notice that Jesus after resurrection never talks about actual crucifixion or death-like experiences but only that this "must have happened". That's all. Historically he was crucified and died, and we have witnesses for it, but in objective reality if you ask anybody today in 2025, the answer is clear: neither he was crucified, nor died, and for the witnesses it only appeared so to them. Nobody says that witnesses are liars, but their accounts no longer match objective reality after the resurrection took place.