Pontius Pilate may be the most famous Roman governor because of his role in Jesus’ death. But who was he? Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli look into who Pilate was and competing claims as to whether he was a villain or a saint.
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Links for this episode:
- Works of Josephus (Whiston translation)
- Philo’s Embassy to Gaius
- Cassius Dio’s Roman History (books 56-60)
- Jack Finegan’s Handbook of Biblical Chronology (2nd ed.)
- Andrew Steinmann’s From Abraham to Paul
- Pontius Pilate
- Sejanus
- Jimmy’s article on the Herods
- Dorothy Sayers’s The Man Born to Be King (video playlist)
- Samaritan Passover (video)
- The Catholic Talk Show (audio)
- The Catholic Talk Show (video)
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