“One of the most certain facts of history is that Jesus was crucified on orders of the Roman prefect of Judea [Pontius Pilate],” scholar Bart Ehrman wrote, a line often cited because it captures an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 'Ecce Homo' (Behold the Man), by 19th-century painter Antonio Ciseri, depicts Pontius Pilate presenting Jesus to a crowd in ...

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 ...

Other texts from after the first few centuries A.D. said that Pilate became a Christian. Roman history Scholars have long debated the historical facts of Jesus’ trial. In my 2025 book, “Killing the ...