pontius

You are not acting as a devil's advocate but Pontius Pilate, willing to wash your hands and let the system be.

It reminds me of the conversation Jesus is said to have had with Pontius Pilate.

We infer that this was Pontius Pilatus, and there's nothing particularly wrong with that.

A coin-like image over the right eye has 24 coincidences with a lepton coin minted by Pontius Pilate between 29 and 36 A.

Was that the old latin publication where Pontius Pilate had his weekly column?

Even the Bible warned us....when Pontius just caved to the mob and Romans.

I also learned the Pilates (exercise) isn't a reference to Pontius Pilate or something, it's the last name of Joseph Pilates.

I would love to open a Pilates studio near Amazon's Seattle headquarters on Pontius Ave.

The tram scene with Pontius Pilate just blew me away.

Matthew’s gospel, when Pontius Pilate ‘washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person’.

Good company with Lady Macbeth and Pontius Pilate...

But that there was a Jewish rabbi named Yeshua or Jesus who came from Nazareth, was baptized, preached in the Holy Land, and was crucified under Pontius Pilate.

But I think I read somewhere its the Gaelic form of Pontius, as in Pontius Pilot, and is actually pronounced “Prawn-she-is’.

So I could already tell what "Pontius" meant but I needed to look up the translation of "Pilate".

> As Pontius Pilate was heard to remark, "What is Truth?" And as we know, Jesus replied: "Check the dictionary."

With respect to the New Testament, Josephus' "Antiquities of the Jews" is the most contemporary historical account of the region, written in the late 1st century, and attests to the execution of John the Baptist by Herod Antipas, the rule of Pontius Pilate in Judea, and some other events attested to in the New Testament.

Pontius pilate, 2000 years ago, had the exact same headache.

Though, Jesus was subject to capital punishment, despite the original prosecutor (Pontius Pilate) claiming no lawful basis for the execution (Luke 22:66–23:25).