In Matthew’s account of the trial and execution of Jesus, everyone involved bears a share of the responsibility — in a dozen different ways and by many forms of evil. To notice this is to notice that ...

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 ...

According to some legal scholars, the trial of Jesus Christ was one of the most fascinating legal cases in history because it was affected not only by the development of Jewish law but also by the ...

(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 ...

That role is to be at the centre of the trial, the very question at issue. What, then, of the one favoured at Jesus’s feast? What of Judas Iscariot, to whom, St. John tells us, fell the portion ...

But it was Pontius Pilate, the authoritarian Roman ruler of Judaea, who conducted the trial of Jesus and was legally responsible for his crucifixion. That trial involved a bizarre ritual in which ...

Easter with its eggs and bunnies and stirring Holy Week and Easter Day services is past, and I find myself reflecting on John ...

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 ...

Easter with its eggs and bunnies and stirring Holy Week and Easter Day services is past, and I find myself reflecting on John Masefield’s drama “The Trial of Jesus” in which Pilate’s wife ...