Tag: Pontius Pilate

• The Pontius Pilate stone – a warning from history

  There are people who claim that Jesus of Nazareth never existed, but then there are people who say the earth is flat. Both groups are very much in the minority. There’s no question, however, about the existence of one of the key contributors to the Jesus story, namely Pontius Pilatus, Roman governor of Judea from…

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  3rd May 2023

  Christianity, History, Jesus of Nazareth, New Testament, Religion

  Caesarea, Dunnottar, Jesus, Judea, King Herod, Mediterranean, Pontius Pilate, Roman Empire, Theatre, Tiberius

• Questions about Jesus (ii)

  In this series of blogs, I’m asking firstly why Jesus was crucified, and secondly why not his followers who, instead, were allowed to publicly proclaim him, in the very city in which he’d recently been arrested and crucified – the punishment reserved for insurrectionists against the Roman Empire. The first Gospel, called Mark, appeared around…

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  21st Aug 2022

  Christianity, Jesus of Nazareth, Literature, New Testament, Old Testament, Religion

  Crucifixion, Gospels, Jerusalem, Jesus, Josephus, Kingdom of God, Passover, Philo, Pontius Pilate, Temple

• 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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  19th Aug 2022

  Christianity, Jesus of Nazareth, Literature, New Testament, Religion

  Crucifixion, Gospels, Jerusalem, Jesus, Jews, Passover, Pontius Pilate, Rome