They have Jesus arrested and tried before Pilate during the week of Passover. Pilate schemes for Jesus’ release, but a ...

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.

The Gospel accounts of the “two kingdoms” represented in Jesus and Caesar seem strikingly contemporary here and now.

Jesus is brought before Pontius Pilate, the prefect of the Roman province of Judaea, for his sentencing. Pilate listens to the accusations leveled at Jesus by the Pharisees. Realizing that his own ...

They have Jesus arrested and tried before Pilate during the week of Passover ... The Gospels reflect this attitude by making Pilate appear bullied into condemning an innocent man.

'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 ...