4:21) – refers to Pontius Pilate’s wife. It was a common practice of that era: Those people who were sentenced to death were sent to long exile—let us recall Titus from the Flavian family. It is quite ...

After Jesus was sent to Pontius Pilate, who was the Roman governor of Judea at the time, Pilate offered the choice of who to condemn to death to the crowd, as was tradition. The crowd chose to ...

The Roman governor, Pilate, was the only person who could legally sentence Jesus to death. So the Jewish leaders sent Jesus to him for a second trail, hoping he would be found guilty and put to death.

What they mean to you How can such learned men who love justice come to such dumb (evil) decisions? The common thread is that they distort reality to fit their own illogical ...

Imagine all the politics going on behind the scenes for Pontius Pilate, the Roman prefect (equivalent ... redemption and deliverance from sin and death for the world. God used the death of Jesus ...

Not everyone welcomes Jesus enthusiastically into Jerusalem. After celebrating the Last Supper, Judas betrays Jesus, who is taken for trial to Pontius Pilate and subsequently condemned to death.