To the Romans, Jesus was a troublemaker who had got his just desserts. To the Christians, however, he was a martyr and it was soon clear that the execution had made Judaea even more unstable.

Nathanael Andrade, Binghamton University, State University of New York It’s a straightforward part of the Easter story: The Roman governor Pontius Pilate had Jesus of Nazareth killed by his ...

Jesus's death on the cross, though a singular event for Christians, was just one example of the Roman Empire's many gruesome, grisly and public tools of torture.

The Romans normally tied victims to the cross—but a grave in Italy provides new archaeological evidence that the Biblical account of the Crucifixion may have been right all along.

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 ...

A detail from “Christ before Pilate,” by Mihály Munkácsy (1881). Based on John 18 and 19 and Luke 23, it depicts Jesus standing between his accusers and a hesitant Roman governor Pontius Pilate.

Jesus had to avoid arrest before holding his last supper. The meal was for men only. Perhaps he expected violence and did not want his mother or the other female followers to be put in harm’s way. As ...

Although they might not have seen Romans on a day-to-day basis, the imposition of Roman power was certainly there. In the case of the client kingdom, Judea, Herod's rule and Herod's forces would ...

By deflecting blame on Jews for Jesus’ death, he becomes a Christian in solidarity with other Christians who oppose Judaism and Jews. In reality, Jesus was killed by the Romans because he was a Jew.

Experts believe they have found the lost Roman city of Julias, formerly the village of Bethsaida, which was the home of Jesus' apostles Peter, Andrew and Philip.