We know the man, and we know his name. He is infamous for his contributions to Jesus’ suffering and death. Though his name is immortalized through the recitation of the Creed each Sunday, Pontius ...

'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 It’s a ...

Billions know the Roman governor’s name. But he didn’t know the very son of God standing before him. I am in the apparently small category of men unconcerned with the Roman Empire. I could probably ...

At critical moments preceding the crucifixion of Jesus, the evangelists introduced the most dramatic scenes of the death narrative. When the priests presented Jesus to Pilate for him to pronounce the ...

It’s a straightforward part of the Easter story: The Roman governor Pontius Pilate had Jesus of Nazareth killed by his soldiers. He imposed a sentence that Roman judges often inflicted on social ...