Decades of Roman rule were causing ever more resentment. Jesus was born to a family from a village called Nazareth, near the Sea of Galilee. As he was growing up, Judaea was collapsing into chaos.

Whilst it’s impossible to say whether the earthquake happened at the very moment of Jesus’ passing, it is historical fact that seismic activity was occurring in the area during that time. Pontius ...

After Jesus was sent to Pontius Pilate, who was the Roman governor of Judea at the time, Pilate offered the choice of who to condemn to death to the crowd, as was tradition. The crowd chose to ...

The Bible says very little about what Jesus looked like. And for centuries after his death, likely due to concerns about idolatry, artists wouldn’t even create depictions of the Son of God. So, the ...

The Roman answer is good enough for me ... These are different gospel visions of the brute historical fact that Jesus would have died in agony on the cross.... SEARCHING THE HEBREW SCRIPTURES ...

The events that took place around Jesus’ death and resurrection are remembered by Christians each year during the Easter season. Christians believe that Jesus truly defeated death, by ascending ...

The oldest known depiction of the Crucifixion of Christ is housed in the Greek Orthodox Holy Monastery of St. Catherine on ...