The leaders then took Jesus before Pontius Pilate, the Roman prefect (governor) of Judea, where he was put on trial. The stories told in the Gospels claim that Pilate was reluctant to find Jesus guilty but was pushed toward the verdict by a mob who wanted Jesus to be crucified. The ...
Providing an account of the trial of Jesus presents challenges unlike that for any of the other trials on the Famous Trials Website. First, there is the challenge of determining what actually happened nearly 2,000 years ago before the Sanhedrin and the Roman prefect of Judea, Pontius Pilate....
The task is daunting because almost our entire understanding of events comes from five divergent accounts, each of which was written by a Christian (who did not witness the final days of Jesus directly) for a distinct audience from thirty-five to seventy years after the trial. Second, there ...
I Am Not Who I Once Was (from the album "The Beginning and the End and the Time In-Between") (3:19) - Me and the Trinity Redeemed (from the album "When Darkness Reigns") (3:01) - This Divided World To Be Honest, I Haven't Been On Apollo 13 (from the EP "Illusions") ...
Even in lefty California, Trump has a firm grip on Republicans. Inside the strategy Sept. 29, 2023 Trump was the only Republican candidate facing scores of criminal charges, ranging from allegations that he conspired to overturn his 2020 election defeat to h...
Valerius Herberger, quoted in The Treasury of Daily Prayer: “Reverent hearts, it is an old, laudable custom to commemorate St. Stephen on the second day of Christmas. For just as the innocent children were the first martyrs after Christ’s birth, so also St. Stephen was the first afte...
Jesus’ Political Trial Then they brought Jesus to Pilate, the governor of the Roman province of Judea. Interrogating Jesus, Pilate was having difficulty finding any government laws that Jesus had broken and wanted to free Jesus. The Jews told the governor, “We have a law, and according to...
4 And they consulted together, that by subtilty they might apprehend Jesus, and put him to death. 5 But they said: Not on the festival day, lest perhaps there should be a tumult among the people. 6 And when Jesus was in Bethania, in the house of Simon the leper, 7 There came to...
20 When they were finally tired of mocking him, they took off the purple robe and put his own clothes on him again. Then they led him away to be crucified. The Crucifixion 21 A passerby named Simon, who was from Cyrene,[b] was coming in from the countryside just then, and the sold...
Luke 9:22 says that Jesus must suffer refection (see Luke 17:25). Before Jesus died Pilate wrote a sign for Jesus and put it above Jesus on the cross. It said, “Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews” (John 19:19). Jesus didn’t fight back and say, “I was born in Bethle...