Pontius Pilate love

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  • noun the Roman procurator of Judea who ordered that Jesus be crucified (died in AD 36)

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  • If you are going to have a name that is so pretentious and all look-at-me-I-exercise as "Pontius Pilate", please learn to spell.

    BSNYC Funday Fry Quiz! BikeSnobNYC 2009

  • If you are going to have a name that is so pretentious and all look-at-me-I-exercise as "Pontius Pilate", please learn to spell.

    BSNYC Funday Fry Quiz! BikeSnobNYC 2009

  • 1“Behold the man” is, of course, the phrase that Pontius Pilate uses when he presents Jesus to the hostile crowd in the Bible John 19:5, though Yeats may not have intended so specific an identification.

    Under The Moon William Butler Yeats 1995

  • 1“Behold the man” is, of course, the phrase that Pontius Pilate uses when he presents Jesus to the hostile crowd in the Bible John 19:5, though Yeats may not have intended so specific an identification.

    Under The Moon William Butler Yeats 1995

  • The chamber chorus's music resembles the hushed intimacy of chant, while the larger chorus - often representing crowds or characters such as Pontius Pilate - has a greater range of expression.

    Boston.com Top Stories 2010

  • David Bowie's film career hasn't exactly been illustrious, but he's carved out a niche for himself playing a range of odd characters such as Pontius Pilate, Nikola Tesla, Andy Warhol, a vampire and an alien.

    Dallas Observer | Complete Issue 2009

  • (Vienne on the Rhone), where a singular monument -- a pyramid on a quadrangular base, 52 feet high -- is called Pontius Pilate "s tomb, An other is that he sought to hide his sorrows on the mountain by the lake of Lucerne, now called Mount Pilatus; and there) after spending years in its recesses, in remorse and despair rather than penitence, plunged into the dismal lake which occupies its summit.

    Smith's Bible Dictionary 1884

  • Jesus Of Nazareth (1977)- This landmark six-hour mini-series tells the story of Jesus Christ (Robert Powell), from birth in Bethlehem to the Virgin Mary (Olivia Hussey) to death on the cross at Golgotha by order of Pontius Pilate (Rod Steiger), and its effect on his twelve apostles.

    John Farr: Getting Religion: The Ten Best Films on Faith John Farr 2011

  • Jesus Of Nazareth (1977)- This landmark six-hour mini-series tells the story of Jesus Christ (Robert Powell), from birth in Bethlehem to the Virgin Mary (Olivia Hussey) to death on the cross at Golgotha by order of Pontius Pilate (Rod Steiger), and its effect on his twelve apostles.

    John Farr: Getting Religion: The Ten Best Films on Faith John Farr 2011

  • Jesus Of Nazareth (1977)- This landmark six-hour mini-series tells the story of Jesus Christ (Robert Powell), from birth in Bethlehem to the Virgin Mary (Olivia Hussey) to death on the cross at Golgotha by order of Pontius Pilate (Rod Steiger), and its effect on his twelve apostles.

    John Farr: Getting Religion: The Ten Best Films on Faith John Farr 2011

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