Throughout history, Christians have often believed Pontius Pilate was reluctant to condemn Jesus. History suggests otherwise, ...

PEERING back 2,000 years to the age of Jesus isn’t exactly easy – but rare objects from those times solve the mystery of what ...

Nathanael Andrade explores the historical record to puncture a "misreading" that has often come back to haunt Jews come ...

Brutal tyrant or reluctant judge? Pilate’s encounter with Christ exposes the cost of power, fear, and placating the crowd.

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.

If it seems that we are more Roman than Christian these days, it can help to recall that the hero of Easter is Jesus and not ...

Trump’s plan to deport U.S. citizens to El Salvador echoes the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose fate puts America’s moral ...

Columnist Jonathan Lange writes, "The New York Stock Exchange was closed on Friday because Jesus’ crucifixion is the business ...

The Roman governor Pontius Pilate had Jesus of Nazareth killed by his soldiers. He imposed a sentence that Roman judges often ...

(The Conversation) — Throughout history, Christians have often believed Pontius Pilate was reluctant to ... debated the historical facts of Jesus’ trial. In my 2025 book, “Killing the ...

(THE CONVERSATION) It’s a straightforward part of the Easter story: The Roman governor Pontius ... Pilate became a Christian. Scholars have long debated the historical facts of Jesus’ trial.