Throughout history, Christians have often believed Pontius Pilate was reluctant to condemn Jesus. History suggests otherwise, ...

Pontius Pilate, is one of these first round of governors ... its political and material heights in the early days of the Roman Empire. Herod was a successful client king, which meant that as ...

It's one of the holiest and most somber days in the Christian calendar as followers remember the execution of Jesus.

The peasant parade carries a countercultural message: The weak and the powerless gathered together with the divine presence become the powerful. In Holy Week, God puts God’s thumb on the scale to ...

In the preeminent criminal trial of the ages, Pontius Pilate asked Jesus of Nazareth whether he considered himself some sort of king. This was a life-and-death question. The Roman Empire held ...

The Roman governor Pontius Pilate had Jesus of Nazareth killed by his soldiers. But over the past 2,000 years, it was common for some Christians to deem Pilate almost blameless for Jesus’ death and tr ...

It is known from the ancient tradition that Pontius Pilate and his spouse were executed. They may have been executed not for their faith in Jesus Christ; there was no punishment for worshipping “other ...

Jesus’ procession was a parody of imperial power — a deliberate mockery of Roman spectacle and a prophetic enactment of a ...

What is truth?” asked Pontius Pilate, of its use not conscious. File it away where you won’t find it when you need it, out of ...

His study is pivotal for understanding the propagation of Christianity within the Roman Empire following ... death of Jesus during the rule of Pontius Pilate. “Christus, from whom the name ...

'Ecce Homo' (Behold the Man), by 19th-century painter Antonio Ciseri, depicts Pontius Pilate presenting Jesus to a crowd in Jerusalem. Tungsten/Galleria d'Arte Moderna via Wikimedia Commons ...