Peter testified that Jesus was “crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men.” He was referring primarily to the Romans, including Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor of Judea who ordered ...

It’s a straightforward part of the Easter story: The Roman governor Pontius Pilate had Jesus of Nazareth killed by his soldiers. He imposed a sentence that Roman judges often inflicted on social ...

Recently, however, some have raised questions about the method by which Jesus of Nazareth was crucified. Here are three reasons believers can be sure that Jesus’ crucifixion involved the Son of ...

"From the Pulpit" is a weekly column of faith, shared by Central Illinois faith leaders. This week: Is Jesus being crucified ...

On May 26, 1950, Professor André Dupont-Sommer of the Sorbonne provoked a controversy in Europe by a lecture in which he claimed that the Teacher of Righteousness had probably been crucified, had ...

How does crucifixion kill you? Here’s what we know. First, the history. Crucifixion is a gruesome mode of execution, and that’s why the Romans in Jesus’ day used it.

The actual Jesus presented to us in the Gospels shows us instead that if we are to be resurrected at all it will be as crucified and resurrected. There is no other path.

Jesus’ crucifixion represented a collision between Jesus and Roman governmental authority, an obvious liability to early Christian efforts to promote their faith. Yet, remarkably, they somehow ...

It’s a straightforward part of the Easter story: The Roman governor Pontius Pilate had Jesus of Nazareth killed by his soldiers. He imposed a sentence that Roman judges often inflicted on social ...

(The Conversation) — It’s a straightforward part of the Easter story: The Roman governor Pontius Pilate had Jesus of Nazareth killed by his soldiers.

MOST people who consider themselves Christians will have their own imagined image of Jesus of Nazareth. Few really know who he was, what he did and said, or was reported as having said. Most know him ...