Tag: Jews
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Questions about Jesus (i)
It’s more or less certain that in Jerusalem, in 30 CE, at the time of the Jewish Passover Festival, a man called Jesus of Nazareth, by order of the Roman governor Pontius Pilate, was executed by the excruciatingly painful and deliberately humiliating technique of crucifixion. Evidence supporting this is found in the writings of the…
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The Stories of Jesus
The Gospels contain “stories of Jesus”. How did these stories originate, and how did they eventually find their way into the four scrolls, now books, in what ultimately became the New Testament? After his crucifixion, some of Jesus’ followers believed they’d seen him alive again. That, in my view, can reasonably be regarded as fact.…
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They tried to hide the real Pontius Pilate!
The Gospels give accounts of the sayings and doings of Pontius Pilate, the Governor of Judea, who condemned Jesus of Nazareth to death. His reason for doing so would have been swiftly to nip in the bud, the potential for a rebellious riot, in the powder-keg of a jam-packed Jerusalem at Passover Time. The Gospels,…
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