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The Message of Pilate's Wife (1886–94) by James Tissot (Brooklyn Museum). It is likely that Pontius Pilate was married. [14] It is possible that his wife accompanied him to his post as governor of Judaea (26–36/37 CE); while governors were forbidden to bring their wives to their posts under the Republic and Augustus, the law was later repealed by the Senate.
Caiaphas and the crowd bring Jesus before Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor of Judea, to be condemned to death. At the urging of his wife Claudia, who knows Jesus is holy, and after questioning Jesus, Pilate finds no fault in him and transfers him to the court of Herod Antipas since Jesus is from Antipas' domain of Galilee. Antipas deems him ...
A dream of Pilate's is recounted in which an eagle from heaven (a symbol for Jesus) is crucified, revives and flies up to heaven again, among other things. Jesus interprets Pilate's dream for him as his passion, resurrection and the subsequent spread of the Gospel. Pilate's wife, named Procla, has a dream in which an eagle gives her a warning ...
However, he is stopped by Pontius Pilate, who has sentenced Jesus to death. Claudia Procula, Pilate's wife, helps Taurus because she liked Jesus's teachings. She shows Taurus where Jesus's body was buried. A few more questions are asked, and Pilate makes up a story about finding the body to end the investigation. Taurus knows it is not Jesus's ...
Jesus of Nazareth is a carpenter in the Roman client state, Judea.He is torn between his own desires and his knowledge of God's plan for him. His friend Judas Iscariot is sent to kill him for collaborating with the Romans to crucify Jewish rebels, but suspects that Jesus is the Messiah and asks him to lead a war of liberation against the Romans.
Jesus entrusts his mother to John's care, and dies soon afterward. Jesus' body is taken down from the cross and given to his mother, who mourns the loss of her son. Jesus is then buried in a nearby tomb owned by Joseph of Arimathea. On the third day after the execution, Mary is firm in her belief that Jesus would rise again, according to his ...
Sources on Pontius Pilate are limited, although modern scholars know more about him than about other Roman governors of Judaea. [14] The most important sources are the Embassy to Gaius (after the year 41) by contemporary Jewish writer Philo of Alexandria, [15] the Jewish Wars (c. 74) and Antiquities of the Jews (c. 94) by the Jewish historian Josephus, as well as the four canonical Christian ...
[21] Pilate's wife had seen Jesus in a dream earlier that day, and she forewarned Pilate to "have nothing to do with this righteous man." [22] Pilate had Jesus flogged and then brought him out to the crowd to release him. The chief priests informed Pilate of a new charge, demanding Jesus be sentenced to death "because he claimed to be God's son."