A short time ago we remembered the trials of Jesus before the Sanhedrin of the Jewish leaders (Luke 22:66-71), King Herod (Luke 23:6-11), and repeatedly before the governor Pontius Pilate (Luke ...

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the trial before Pilate, the final kind of public scene where the decision is made to send Jesus to the cross. Of all of those episodes, most of them seem to be the product, really, of literary ...

This month, the historian Nathanael Andrade weighs in with a new book, “Killing the Messiah: The Trial and ... Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor of Judaea who sentences Jesus to death ...

The show depicts the arrest, trial and crucifixion of Jesus by the Romans, before he miraculously rises ... Jesus also features live animals; Pontius Pilate rides into the Square on horseback ...

Since last November, we've focused on the life of Jesus the Messiah. This week we'll explore a little about the meaning of ...

The St. Matthew Passion, sung in German, follows the Gospel of Matthew’s account of Jesus’s crucifixion, moving through key events like the Last Supper, the betrayal, the agony in the Garden, the ...

Pontius Pilate served as the fifth prefect for the Roman province of Judaea and is mentioned in several accounts in the New Testament, as having ordered the trial and crucifixion of Jesus.

From the palace and Pilate’s praetorium ... The Gospels tell us that once Jesus had died, shortly before sundown on Good Friday, he was taken down from the cross and buried.

Therefore, going to Pilate to request that he might remove the body of Jesus before the Sabbath began was an act of bravery on Joseph’s part. Joseph’s desire to take the body of Jesus and ...

In Mark, the question Who is this man is answered not only through supernatural acts, but ultimately through sacrificial love ...