First, the background: According to the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus’ trial before Pilate happened in a place called the praetorium. Originally a term used to signify the tent of the general when ...

Jose Maria Ribas Alba, Professor in Roman Law at Seville University in Spain, spent 25 years examining the details of Jesus' trial and comparing it to other legal proceedings of the time ...

Archaeologists in Jerusalem say they may have uncovered the remains of Herod the Great's palace, the site where the trial of Jesus Christ may have taken place prior to his crucifixion. The ...

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(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 ...

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 ...

When I mentioned to two of my colleagues that I was considering creating a website on the trial of Jesus, puzzled looks appeared on their faces. “I wouldn’t touch that trial with a ten-foot pole,” one ...