Pontius Pilate

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Meaning

the Roman procurator of Judea who ordered that Jesus be crucified (died in AD 36)

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There are several points on which virtually all scholars of antiquity agree. Jesus was a Jewish man, known to be a preacher and teacher, who was crucified (a Roman form of execution) in Jerusalem during the reign of the Roman emperor Tiberius, when Pontius Pilate was the governor of Judea. Bart D. Ehrman

Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship. Ben Lindsey

Jesus was a community organizer, Pontius Pilate was a governor. And perhaps they should understand the role of a community organizer is to help people in distress. Donna Brazile

Even Jesus Christ only had one Pontius Pilate - I had a whole team of them. Ken Bates

And in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord, :who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, :born of the virgin Mary, :suffered under Pontius Pilate, :was crucified, died and was buried. Source: Internet

The legatus sometimes would appoint a prefect (later procurator ), usually a man of equestrian rank, to act as his deputy in a subregion of the larger province: the infamous character of Pontius Pilate in the Christian Gospels was a governor of this sort. Source: Internet

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