Questions about Pilate and the Attack against the Samaritans in 37 CE

Do you think Pilate might have seen the Samaritans and Jesus with his followers the same way? That is, could there have been one attack on Jesus and his followers and another on the Samaritans? I know the difficulty then is that you have two separate events very similar both on Mt. Gerizim. Looking again at what the Gospels say about the location. Mark and Matthew have Gethsemane, which could be anywhere. Luke has the Mount of Olives, and John mentions crossing the Kidron. Another difficulty is that Josephus connects Pilate’s attack on the Samaritans with his recall to Rome in (as I remember) 41 A.D., after an event apparently in 40 A.D. Then again, it might have taken three (or two and a half) years’ work to achieve a result in Rome.

I suppose part of the confusion about the date of the end of Pilate’s term is that it is forgotten just how quick a trip across the Mediterranean could be. I must admit I had unconsciously been thinking of how long it took to get from London to Sydney at the end of the 18th century. But what about the order of events? If Jesus was executed on the 23rd March, it would have been after the death of Tiberius. Then again, I suppose we could imagine the message of recall arriving from Rome on the 24th or 25th, if the reason for the recall was the death of Tiberius and its consequences.