Pontius Pilate
historical figure · 4 works · 5 mentions · 6 anchored passages
Pilate
in the texts
Adversus Judaeos
Roman governor before whom the Jews demanded Christ's blood be upon them rather than release him.
And so the whole synagogue of Israel killed him, saying to Pilate, when he wished to release him:
For when Pilate questioned him, he said nothing;
Institutes of Roman Law
Provincial administrator cited as an example of a Roman official uniting the offices of Procurator and Legatus.
Sometimes the same person united the office of Procurator and Legatus, as, for instance, Pontius Pilate.
Adversus Marcionem
The Roman governor before whom Christ is tried and who sends him to Herod.
For having led him to Pilate, they began to charge that he called himself Christ a king, without doubt the Son of God, about to sit at the right hand of God.
Apologeticum
The Roman governor who, under pressure from Jewish leaders, condemned Jesus to crucifixion and later reported the events to Tiberius.
All these things concerning Christ, Pilate — himself now in his conscience a Christian — reported to the Caesar of that time, Tiberius.
But at his teaching, by which the masters and chief men of the Jews were confuted, they were so exasperated, chiefly because a vast multitude turned aside to him, that at last, having brought him before Pontius Pilate, then governing Syria on Rome's behalf, by the violence of their votes they wrung from him that Jesus should be given up to them for the cross.