An apocryphal letter from Pilate to Herod told how after Easter Pilate's wife Procula had traveled to Galilee where from far off she saw Jesus talking to the disciples. When she returned with Pilate, ...

Pilate was probably bilingual, speaking Latin and Greek. Jesus, too, was probably bilingual, speaking Aramaic and biblical Hebrew. The Gospel writers don't tell us if Jesus and Pilate had a common ...

Wright: “We’re talking about Jesus looking pretty bedraggled and cutting a fairly sorry figure in amongst a Roman guard and then Pilate addressing him as very much I am the great Roman.

Pontius Pilate was a torture man, the man ultimately held responsible for the crucifixion and death of Jesus Christ ... her free to discover the Master speaking in the Jewish temple and healing ...

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 ...

When the poet Randall Jarrell penned his classic World War II poem, “Eighth Air Force,” he invoked the image of Pontius ...

Jesus’s trial and Jesus’s crucifixion. In the musical, Pontius Pilate is the governor of the Roman province of Judea and has Jesus flogged to appease a mob demanding for Jesus’s crucifixion.

Why punctilious? St. Mark records a detail absent from the other Gospels. When asked to release the body of Jesus, Pilate was amazed that he was already dead. He summoned the centurion and asked ...