Jesus received no due process before Pilate, according to Robert Tuttle, professor of law and religion at George Washington University. "He just questions Jesus and says he finds no fault ...

In Matthew’s gospel, by the time Jesus arrives at Pilate’s step, he has already been arrested and questioned by the Sanhedrin (Matt. 26:57–68). It is Friday morning, and Pilate initially ...

Pilate schemes for Jesus’ release, but a riotous crowd clamors ... which were held in public. Judges posed questions to prosecutors and defendants, and had ample power to decide whether a ...

Pilate schemes for Jesus’ release, but a riotous crowd clamors ... which were held in public. Judges posed questions to prosecutors and defendants, and had ample power to decide whether a ...

In the New Testament, Andrade told me, Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor of Judaea who sentences Jesus to death, “is more or less portrayed as believing in Jesus’ innocence, while the chief ...

Why punctilious? St. Mark records a detail absent from the other Gospels. When asked to release the body of Jesus, Pilate was amazed that he was already dead. He summoned the centurion and asked ...

It was originally published April 9, 2009. A central statement in traditional Christian creeds is that Jesus was crucified “under Pontius Pilate.” But the majority of Christians have only the ...

Jesus’s trial and Jesus’s crucifixion. In the musical, Pontius Pilate is the governor of the Roman province of Judea and has Jesus flogged to appease a mob demanding for Jesus’s crucifixion.

Pilate schemes for Jesus’ release, but a riotous crowd clamors ... which were held in public. Judges posed questions to prosecutors and defendants, and had ample power to decide whether a ...

'Ecce Homo' (Behold the Man), by 19th-century painter Antonio Ciseri, depicts Pontius Pilate presenting Jesus to a crowd in Jerusalem. Tungsten/Galleria d'Arte Moderna via Wikimedia Commons ...