Pontius Pilate
228He is Risen, Indeed
27 Oct 2025
22:05¶ 82
“This is kind of news to Pilate. “He said what? What didn’t anyone tell me this earlier? We already have a garden place. We…”
21:54¶ 81
“Pilate said, “You have a watch.” He’s not telling them “You already have one.” He says, “You want it, you got it.”
22:26¶ 83
“It’s kind of like, “You mean this guy that we tried for crimes against the State and found no guilt in, you mean he…”
227They Killed Their King
13 Oct 2025
19:28¶ 39
“When Pilate sentenced Jesus he was required to write some kind of accusation. “What was this man guilty of? Why is he being led…”
21:18¶ 44
“Pilate, wanting to have perhaps one last jab at the Jews, simply says, “What I have written I have written,” a great classic line…”
21:46¶ 45
“Rome, the mistress of the nations, the ruler of the world, the nation put here cherub-like to protect God’s people, has declared this man…”
226The Road to Calvary
29 Sep 2025
1:23¶ 9
“We left off with Pilate in the difficult position of knowing that Jesus is innocent, and wanting, after a fashion, to let him go,…”
2:32¶ 11
“It's important again that he represents Rome. God has given the keys of the Jewish world to Rome. They’re the caretakers, the overseers, the…”
6:57¶ 20
“Pilate seems to have known about this, or just similarities of cultures kicking in at this point, and says, “I’m going to wash my…”
225Suffered Under Pontius Pilate
15 Sep 2025
3:22¶ 9
“This is the end of the Hellenistic time. Technically it ended when Augustus or Octavian defeated Marc Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of…”
3:42¶ 10
“The philosophers had tried – the Stoics, the Epicureans, the Skeptics. They had all given a shot at what might be truth and they…”
4:11¶ 11
“He’s well-read. He’s cultured. He moves in high political circles and has a reputation for being firm to the point of abusive and oppressive.…”
208Cynic, Epic, Stoic, Skeptic
21 Oct 2024
24:29¶ 61
“We can see the lingering effects of the Hellenistic age I think very clearly in Pontius Pilate. He was a man of his time.…”
199What's so great about So-crates?
22 Jul 2024
30:05¶ 89
“When Pilate says, “What is truth?” that stands against the whole background of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and the failure of their attempt to find…”
30:29¶ 90
“So when Pilate says that, he’s not just a high-school kid who doesn’t want to really get serious about life and says, “What does…”
196Greek Life
17 Jun 2024
41:44¶ 144
“What modern philosophy and historians have got wrong is they didn’t jettison religion to do it. They continued to cling to very religious basic…”
42:12¶ 145
“He was speaking as a man of his time. He understood enough to know that Greece had no answers. The philosophers had no answers.…”
147The Course of Empire
5 Dec 2022
26:22¶ 92
“This is something of what Pilate was up against when he interviewed Jesus. “Are you the king of the Jews?” and Jesus has to…”
26:49¶ 93
“Pilate sneers, “Am I a Jew? Your own people, your chief priests have delivered you to me. What have you done?” He’s still thinking…”
27:36¶ 97
“Then Pilate turns and sneers and says, “What is truth?” and walks out and says, “This man is innocent of what you are accusing…”
135Conspiracy Theory
12 Sep 2022
25:00¶ 85
“If you went back and talked to Pilate right after he signed Jesus’ death warrant, and got him quietly away from others and said,…”
25:19¶ 87
“Yeah, I washed my hands. It was all on them. I was not a conspirator.”
25:24¶ 88
“How about Herod? Herod just said, “I don’t want nothing to do with this guy. Send him back to Pilate. Let him deal with…”
46Faithful Witness
15 Nov 2020
3:32¶ 11
“This is the age in which Pontius Pilate lived, and we all know the story. Christ is brought before him, he looks him in…”
4:25¶ 18
“We’re talking politics and you’re talking philosophy? What is truth?” and he storms out and says, “No. Whatever you guys are trying to sell…”
4:36¶ 19
“And of course eventually they say, “Well, he claimed to be the Son of God,” and Pilate turns around and goes back and says,…”