The Roman trial . It is said that justice given by Roman law was famous, and thus it was expected that the governor, Pontius Pilate, was to give Jesus a fair trial.

To understand how the Roman authorities would have treated a dissident like Jesus, Andrade turned to a historical account of a trial that took place some 30 years after Jesus would have been executed.

THE legal questions bound up in the trial and crucifixion of Jesus open up matters of much interest and moment to both the lay and the professional mind.

"This is the best-documented Roman court case from Judaea apart from the trial of Jesus," study co-author Avner Ecker, an ...

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 ...

How did Jesus' final days unfold? Scholars are still debating. The people and places of the Passion are well documented in the Bible, but pinning down the exact locations and timing of the trials ...

In this series for Holy Week, he explores Jesus’s “journey into a far country” by reading it alongside the story of Joseph’s search for his brothers (Genesis 38-50).

To understand how the Roman authorities would have treated a dissident like Jesus, Andrade turned to a historical account of a trial that occurred 30 years after Jesus.