As a (near) lifelong bureaucrat, I always have an interest in, and a certain fellow feeling with, past colleagues facing ...

WHEN Pontius Pilate presented the crowd with a choice to free Jesus of Nazareth or Barabbas, a known criminal, the people ...

The issue of idolatry in the form of the state claiming ultimate lordship and sovereignty over the lives of subjects came to the fore in the early church. The Roman state had made claims for the ...

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The Bible recounts how a Roman soldier pierced Jesus' side with a spear during the crucifixion to confirm his death, but it ...

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But it was Pontius Pilate, the authoritarian Roman ruler of Judaea, who conducted the trial of Jesus and was legally responsible for his crucifixion. That trial involved a bizarre ritual in which ...

Yet even after this mockery of a trial, Pontius Pilate seemed incapable of escaping the truth now that he came face to face with him. He commanded the sign to be erected above Jesus proclaiming ...

In the New Testament, Andrade told me, Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor of ... They included Paul Winter in “On the Trial of Jesus” (1961), Paula Fredriksen in “When Christians Were ...

Two days before Easter, Christians worldwide will observe Good Friday, one of the most somber days of the religion's year. Here's what to know.

In the New Testament, Andrade told me, Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor ... Andrade turned to a historical account of a trial that took place some 30 years after Jesus would have been executed.