It’s a straightforward part of the Easter story: The Roman governor Pontius Pilate had Jesus of Nazareth killed by his ...

In the New Testament, Andrade told me, Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor of Judaea who sentences Jesus to death, “is more or ...

A 2,000-year-old ring that was unearthed 50 years ago near Jerusalem may well have been worn by Pontius Pilate ...

as you say reflected later in the Christian story by Pontius Pilate who by washing his own hands was attempting to atone for his responsibility for the death of Jesus. It leaves one to wonder if ...

Brutal tyrant or reluctant judge? Pilate’s encounter with Christ exposes the cost of power, fear, and placating the crowd.

Jesus was neither an imperialist nor a bigot. There is a biblical figure who provided a model for your tactics. His name was Pontius Pilate, and he was a clean-cut Roman procurator who condemned a ...

She’s playing Claudia Procula, wife of Pontius Pilate ... the mother of Jesus, would have understood.” Biblical soap opera it may be, but Claudia’s Letter is boffo in the California city ...

If it seems that we are more Roman than Christian these days, it can help to recall that the hero of Easter is Jesus and not Pontius Pilate. Joshua Bessex [email protected] For Christians ...

It’s a straightforward part of the Easter story: The Roman governor Pontius Pilate had Jesus of Nazareth killed by his soldiers. He imposed a sentence that Roman judges often inflicted on social ...

(The Conversation) — Throughout history, Christians have often believed Pontius Pilate was reluctant to condemn Jesus. History suggests otherwise, a scholar explains. (The Conversation ...