Pilate (Pontius)
A limestone block was discovered among the ruins of a theatre
at the site of ancient Caesarea in Israel. It contained 4 lines
of writing in Latin which revealed a dedicatory inscription
from Pontius Pilate of Judea to Tiberias Caesar in Rome. It is
now in the Israel Museum (Jerusalem)....
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Then said the chief priests of the Jews to Pilate, Write not,
The King of the Jews; but that he said, I am King of the Jews....
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Then saith Pilate unto him, Speakest thou not unto me? knowest
thou not that I have power to crucify thee, and have power to
release thee?...
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Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus
answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I
born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should
bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth
heareth my voice....
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Pontius Pilate (pronounced /ˈpɒntʃəs ˈpaɪlət/; Latin: Pontius
Pilatus, Greek: Πόντιος Πιλᾶτος) was the fifth Prefect of the
Roman province of Judaea from AD 26–36.[1][2][3] Typically
referenced as the fifth Prefect of Judaea, he is best known as
the judge at Jesus' trial and the man who authorized his
crucifixion.
Pilate appears in all four ca...
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1. Name and Office:
The nomen Pontius indicates the stock from which Pilate was
descended. It was one of the most famous of Samnite names;
it was a Pontius who inflicted on a Roman army the disgrace
of the Caudine Forks. The name is often met with in Roman
history after the Samnites were conquered and absorbed.
Lucius Pontius Aquila was a frie...
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-Roman governor of Judaea during the time of Jesus' ministry
Mt 27:2; Lu 3:1
-Causes the slaughter of certain Galileans
Lu 13:1
-Tries Jesus and orders his crucifixion
Mt 27; Mr 15; Lu 23; Joh 18:28-40; 19; Ac 3:13; 4:27;
13:28; 1Ti 6:13
-Allows Joseph of Arimathaea to take Jesus' body
Mt 27:57,58; Mr 15:43-45; Lu 23:52; Joh 19:38...
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(armed with a spear), Pontius. Pontius Pilate was the sixth
Roman procurator of Judea, and under him our Lord worked,
suffered and died, as we learn not only from Scripture, but
from Tacitus (Ann. xv. 44). was appointed A.D. 25-6, in the
twelfth year of Tiberius. His arbitrary administration
nearly drove the Jews to insurrection on two or thre...
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probably connected with the Roman family of the Pontii, and
called "Pilate" from the Latin pileatus, i.e.,
"wearing the
pileus", which was the "cap or badge of a manumitted
slave," as
indicating that he was a "freedman," or the
descendant of one.
He was the sixth in the order of the Roman
procurators of Judea
(A.D. 26-36). His headquarters...
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PILATE, PONTIUS. Connected with the Pontian clan (gens),
first remarkable in the person of Pontius Telesinus, the
great Samnite general. Pilate is probably from pileus, "the
cap of freedom,"which manumitted slaves received; Pilate
being perhaps descended from a freedman. Sixth Roman
procurator of Judaea, appointed in Tiberius' 12th year (A.D. ...
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