There were always question marks over his existence until a remarkable discovery on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea ...

Pontius Pilate is inextricably linked with the crucifixion of Jesus Christ but there was always debate about his existence ...

I can imagine the sweat pouring down his forehead as Philip ran alongside the traveling chariot on the dusty desert road ...

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Two millennia ago, religious and secular authorities colluded to kill a man who preached love and practiced what he preached.

This is Dutch artist Gerard van Honthorst’s depiction of Jesus appearing for his trial before High Priest Joseph ben Caiaphas and the Sanhedrin. Van Honthorst lived from 1592-1656. (Courtesy Photo) ...

Even if Pilate was beginning to believe that Jesus was at least some kind of demi-god come to earth, he might have recalled the Jewish people’s zeal and willingness to die before they allowed ...

And when Jesus doesn’t answer—either out of a refusal to speak, as is often the case in the Gospels, or out of the doubt that wracks Dafoe’s Jesus—Pilate cannot help but feel disappointed.

A detail from "Christ before Pilate," by Mihály Munkácsy (1881). Based on John 18 and 19 and Luke 23, it depicts Jesus standing between his accusers and a hesitant Roman governor Pontius Pilate.

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

“Dr. Whitten urged that one consider the vital question ‘What will I do with the man called Jesus.’ Vividly the speaker then described Jesus before Pilate,” the reporter noted.