According to some legal scholars, the trial of Jesus Christ was one of the most fascinating legal cases in history because it was affected not only by the development of Jewish law but also by the ...

This month, the historian Nathanael Andrade weighs in with a new book, “Killing the Messiah: The Trial and Crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth.” In it, Andrade, a scholar of the Greco-Roman world ...

The trial of Jesus is portrayed on Philippine streets. Credit: Mark Akino Rooted in the Spanish colonial period, the word “Senákulo” comes from the Spanish “cenáculo,” meaning “upper ...

(Matthew 16:24, New International Version) The events of Good Friday described in the Bible include the trial of Jesus, the shouts of the crowd to “Crucify him!” even when given a choice to ...

That role is to be at the centre of the trial, the very question at issue. What, then, of the one favoured at Jesus’s feast? What of Judas Iscariot, to whom, St. John tells us, fell the portion ...

Easter with its eggs and bunnies and stirring Holy Week and Easter Day services is past, and I find myself reflecting on John Masefield’s drama “The Trial of Jesus” in which Pilate’s wife ...

But it was Pontius Pilate, the authoritarian Roman ruler of Judaea, who conducted the trial of Jesus and was legally responsible for his crucifixion. That trial involved a bizarre ritual in which ...