Pontius Pilate : Roman procurator of Judaea (c.26-36/37) who condemned Jesus Christ to be crucified. Various legends stressing Pilate’s efforts to release Jesus, whom he considered innocent but whom he condemned in order to escape accusation of disloyalty to the Emperor, made him almost a hero in some Christian traditions.
... idolatrous: worship of a physical object, e.g. a statue, taken as a god. Page 123 Jewish observances at both the home and the synagogue. — Pontius Pilate Although it is only found in Matthew, the scene of Pontius Pilate washing his hands of the guilt of the wrongful condemning of Jesus, whom he feels innocent, is a famous part of the Passion story. Some historians believe that... were made. For us men and for our salvation he came down from heaven; by the power of the Holy Spirit he became incarnate of the Virgin Mary, and was made man. For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate; he suffered death and was buried. On the third day he rose again in accordance with the Scriptures; he ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father: He will come again in ...
... deals with Nero's persecution of the Christians in 64 A.D. thus: "Christ, from whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of the procurator Pontius Pilate; and a most mischievous superstition, thus checked for the moment, again broke out not only in Judaea, the first source of the evil, but even in Rome, where all things hideous and shameful from ...
... it as a troublesome but insignificant sect, get their learned men to argue it or their jesters to ridicule it out of existence, or even accuse its apostles before the tribunal of alien rulers, Pontius Pilate, a Felix or a Festus, as "pestilent fellows and movers of sedition throughout the nation". But in spite of all and largely because of all the persecution, denunciation and disparagement the idea ...
... entered at the baptism recounted by the earlier Evangelist Mark. Brown (The Birth, p. 28, fn. 13) admits: "In later Christianity the creedal slogans 'Born of the Virgin Mary' and 'Suffered under Pontius Pilate' were employed to refute the Docetist claim that Jesus was not really human; they proved that he was born and died like other human beings. But I fail to detect anti-Docetist apologetics in the ...
... Jesus died and the circumstances of his trial with its tragic result. The Chronological Table in The Jerusalem Bible 207 notes that Jesus Page 202 was "condemned to death by Pontius Pilate under the Emperor Tiberius (Tacitus, Annals)". C. Northcote Parkinson 208 brings out a very significant aspect of this event in Jesus' life: "In A.D. 30 or thereabouts the High Priest and Council ...
... the soldiers that here was Jesus. And so he was arrested and led to the High Priest of the temple where he was found guilty of blasphemy31'. He was then led to the head of the Roman occupation, Pontius Pilate, who found it difficult to condemn Jesus to death, so Pilate, in another famous scene, washed his hands of the responsibility of sentencing Jesus to death. It was the custom that at the time of ...
... immediately the cock crowed. [Mat 26:75] And Peter remembered the saying of Jesus, "Before the cock crows, you will deny me three times." And he went out and wept bitterly. Jesus is led to Pontius Pilate (see Note), the Roman governor for judgement [Mat 27:1] When morning came, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death; [Mat ...
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