Quotes About Pilate

What is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer.

I think that when Jesus was put before you, you did not see a God or a prophet, you did not see a lunatic or an innocent, you didn't even see a human being. I think, Mister Pilate, that what you saw before you that morning was just one more Jew, and you didn't hesitate. Why would you?

This hero had gone into the abyss, gone irrevocably, the son of the astrologer-king, forgiven on the eve of Sunday, the cruel fifth procurator of Judea, the equestrian Pontius Pilate.

W bia?ym p?aszczu z podbiciem koloru krwawnika posuwistym krokiem kawalerzysty wczesnym rankiem czternastego dnia wiosennego miesi?ca nisan pod kryt? kolumnad? ??cz?c? oba skrzyd?a pa?acu Heroda Wielkiego wyszed? procurator Judei Poncjusz Pi?at.

Annas responded quickly, "My colleague Joseph is taking Scripture out of context. David was speaking metaphorically, and Isaiah's Suffering Servant is Israel, not Messiah." A voice interrupted their debate. "I can see my tardiness has inspired you to discuss the matter of Messiah in my absence." Pilate paused at the entrance of the chamber, with his personal guard. Everyone stood in respect.

When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying "I am innocent of the blood of this just person: See to it." Then answered all the people, and said "His blood be on us, and on our children."

To be nameless in worthy deeds, exceeds an infamous history. The Canaanitish woman lives more happily without a name, than Herodias with one. And who had not rather have been the good thief, than Pilate?

When the Roman governor Pilate asked Jesus "What is truth?" nearly 2,000 years ago, he didn't wait for Jesus to respond.

Pilate listened to the crowd. What sailor listens to the swell ? (Pilate écouta la foule. - Quel marin écoute la houle ?)

Communism, my friend, is more than Marxism, just as Catholicism is more than the Roman Curia. There is a mystique as well as a politick. Catholics and Communists have committed great crimes, but at least they have not stood aside, like an established society, and been indifferent. I would rather have blood on my hands than water like Pilate.

Father Bernard Vaughan's sermon first. Christ or Pilate? Christ, but don't keep us all night over it.

God did not choose Herod or Pontius Pilate or Caesar Augustus as His instrument. He chose the unknown son of an unknown carpenter in one of the least important stretches of the Roman Empire.

Low as was his opinion of Golenishtchev's capacity for understanding art, trifling as was the true remark upon the fidelity of the expression of Pilate as an official, and offensive as might have seemed the utterance of so unimportant an observation while nothing was said of more serious points, Mihailov was in an ecstasy of delight at this observation.

Pilate's skeptical sneer What is truth? was addressed to Truth Himself, standing there right in front of his face. The world's stupidest question was three words; God's profoundest answer was one Word.

Behold the man.

And finally indeed this blessing, or rather this curse, was fulfilled in Caiaphas, Annas, and the other high priests who persecuted Christ and His apostles with the greatest severity. For these two tribes, Simeon and Levi, stirred up the multitude before Pilate to ask that Barabbas be set free and that Jesus be crucified.

According to John 6:15, He [Christ] fled and would not let Himself be made king; before Pilate He confessed, "My kingdom is not of this world"; and He bade Peter, in the garden, put up his sword, and said, "He that taketh the sword shall perish by the sword.

The church must, in short, learn from Jesus before Pilate how to speak the truth to power rather than for power or merely against power.

So when the crowd had assembled, Pilate asked them, “Which one do you want me to release to you: Barabbas, or Jesus who is called Christ?”

While Pilate was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent him this message: “Have nothing to do with that innocent man, for I have suffered terribly in a dream today because of Him.”

“What then should I do with Jesus who is called Christ?” Pilate asked. They all answered, “Crucify Him!”

So Pilate released Barabbas to them. But he had Jesus flogged, and handed Him over to be crucified.

He went to Pilate to ask for the body of Jesus, and Pilate ordered that it be given to him.

The next day, the one after Preparation Day, the chief priests and Pharisees assembled before Pilate.