The judge knows that his enemies have handed Jesus over to him out of envy, and he tries an absurd move: a choice between Barabbas, a criminal accused ... and the Pharisees and the soldiers ...

They belonged to the tribe of Benjamin and the sect of the Pharisees. Paul’s native language was Aramaic ... Paul had a dramatic conversion to Christianity after personal encounter with Jesus. It ...

Jesus was called "the friend of sinners" by the legalistic Pharisees because he hung out with (and clearly ... 4) Refuse to pass on rumors until you've checked for the truth with the person accused.

Jesus only loses his cool a handful of times in the New Testament (just ask the moneychangers in the Temple), but he unleashes one of his fiercest tirades in Matthew 23 against the Pharisees and ...

Jesus's real name may not have been Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ's real name was most likely Yeshu Nazareen, according to language and phonetic experts, as cited in a New York Post report. Being the ...

Show more The word hypocrite gets used with such regularity – and Jesus himself had form using the term. How did the Pharisees became a byword for hypocrisy and is it fair? Was Jesus wrong about ...

Scientists say that the name of Christianity’s central figure wasn’t originally Jesus Christ — he went by another title in his mother tongue that’s nothing like today’s iteration ...

When Jesus spoke these words, Judea was under Roman occupation. Taxes were a contentious issue, symbolizing financial obligations and subjugation to an oppressive regime. The Pharisees and Herodians ...

The creep accused of raping a 5-year-old girl last month on Staten Island allegedly choked the child’s mother when she tried to call 911 after walking in on him during the disgusting attack ...

The accused attacked the cows in an inebriated state, upset over the fact that they had soiled the area. The animals were tried to a pole, the police said. “The accused worked as a helper in a ...