It wasn’t just the heavens weeping. A jaw-dropping discovery by NASA may lend cosmic credibility to one of the Bible’s most dramatic moments — the crucifixion of Jesus Christ — and the spooky sky show ...
'Ecce Homo' (Behold the Man), by 19th-century painter Antonio Ciseri, depicts Pontius Pilate presenting Jesus to a crowd in Jerusalem. Tungsten/Galleria d'Arte Moderna via Wikimedia Commons It’s a ...
On Friday, Christians around the world commemorate with prayers and fasting the death of Jesus Christ days before the arrival of Easter and the hope of the Resurrection. The church calls on believers ...
At the beginning of the summer of 1968 a team of archaeologists under the direction of V. Tzaferis discovered four cave-tombs at Giv'at ha-Mivtar (Ras el-Masaref), which is just north of Jerusalem ...
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 ...
On Friday, Christians around the world commemorate with prayers and fasting the death of Jesus Christ days before the arrival of Easter and the hope of the Resurrection. The church calls on believers ...
Crucifixion is a gruesome mode of execution, and that's why the Romans in Jesus' day used it. A method of control and intimidation, Roman authorities used crucifixion to rid their cities of slaves, ...