"This is the best-documented Roman court case from Judaea apart from the trial of Jesus," study co-author Avner Ecker, an epigrapher, or researcher of ancient inscriptions, at the Hebrew ...

Stephen, Paul, and Jesus The trial of Stephen and the trial of Paul may well be relevant in a variety of ways to Luke's understanding of the death of Jesus. It is commonly observed, for example, that ...

The chief goal of God’s process in taking us through trials is to make us look more and more like Jesus. Peter says basically the same thing in 1 Peter 1:6-7: “In this you rejoice, though now ...

In it we read about how Satan aggressively but unsuccessfully tempted Jesus in the desert. The first temptation took advantage of Jesus’ hunger. With the Lord having fasted for 40 days, Satan knew ...

Jesus was put on trial by the high priest and found guilty of blasphemy. He was taken to see Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor, who was responsible for keeping the peace and deciding who could be ...