In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar — when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, Herod tetrarch of Galilee, ...

My previous column raised, and rebutted, arguments for the theory that Jesus was a myth created by early Christians and not a ...

WHEN Pontius Pilate presented the crowd with a choice to free Jesus of Nazareth or Barabbas, a known criminal, the people chose Barabbas. That moment, forever etched in the annals of civilization, is ...

From that perspective, we might assume that he was less like Jesus remaining silent before Pontius Pilate and more like Pilate—right down to the irritated retort “What is truth?” ...

In John 18:36, Jesus said, “My kingdom is not of this world.” Christ clarified how much greater and deeper (spiritual) his kingdom was. He didn’t come to overthrow Rome but to establish a forever ...

From the palace and Pilate’s praetorium, Jesus is said to have journeyed to Golgotha—the “place of the skull”—for crucifixion. If he was able to walk then it is likely that Jesus ...

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 ...

And Jesus did speak truth to power. But his way of doing so was not what you would expect. He does not get into a shouting match. He does not get into Pilate’s face or threaten him with violence.

So Pilate said to him, “Then you are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say I am a king. For this I was born and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to ...

does belong to Pilate. Jesus’s response to his question, “Are you the king of the Jews?”, is designed to make him notice that his own lips have spoken the truth: “You have said so ...

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 ...

She has spent a lifetime thinking about the multiple dimensions of the gospel truth ... turn Pontius Pilate, Judea’s Roman governor, into an honorable man who perceives Jesus’s innocence ...