Joseph: How to Find Jesus in the Old Testament You have seen how Joseph is a type and a picture of Jesus, but you did not make the connection of how Potiphar is like Pontius Pilate. He was the Captain of the Guard, and this speaks of Pilate. In this episode you will learn how the whole scene in Genesis 38 is about Joseph being falsely accused, and then put down into that place of judgment, the place of the condemned. This is what happened to Jesus as well. Joseph's story is a foreshadowing of what Jesus went through 2000 years later.