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Fifth Prefect of the Roman province of Judaea, from AD 26–36
The claim that "Jewish people killed Jesus" is historically oversimplified: Roman authorities carried out the crucifixion, while some Jewish leaders of the period are portrayed in the Gospels as havin...
Non-Christian ancient writings confirm that Jesus of Nazareth was known, executed under Roman authority, and that early followers claimed he rose from the dead; . Modern treatments vary: apologetic ac...
Three Roman-era non‑Christian writers commonly cited as mentioning Jesus are Tacitus, Suetonius and Pliny the Younger; Tacitus (Annals, c. 116) says “Christus” suffered under Pontius Pilate and that C...
The claim that Jesus rose from the dead is a contested historical and theological assertion: advocates argue a cluster of , while critics maintain the sources are late, biased, and incapable of provin...
Most historians and New Testament scholars conclude that who lived in first‑century Judea, though they disagree sharply about the details of his life and the theological claims made about him; this co...
Roman-era writers who mention Jesus by name include Tacitus (who calls him Christus and records his execution under Pontius Pilate) and the Jewish-Roman historian Josephus (who refers to Jesus in Anti...
Non‑Christian writers Tacitus and Josephus provide independent ancient attestations that align with the Gospels on three core points: a historical figure called Jesus/Christ existed, he was executed u...
Scholars point to a small cluster of non‑Christian ancient sources that mention Jesus — most notably the Jewish historian Josephus and the Roman historian Tacitus — and judge them useful for confirmin...
The New Testament narratives portray Jewish leaders—chief priests, elders, and the Sanhedrin—as active instigators who arrested Jesus, pressed charges (often framed as blasphemy or political threat), ...
Pontius Pilate, as the Roman prefect of Judaea (c. 26–36 CE), was the only official with authority to order crucifixion in Roman provinces; multiple modern scholars and reference works say Pilate “gav...
Historians treat Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John as ancient, theologically driven biographies whose value for reconstructing the historical Jesus depends on methodical parsing of authorship, date, sourc...
Mainstream historians conclude that a historical figure called Jesus of Nazareth very likely existed as a 1st‑century Jewish teacher who was baptized and later executed by Roman authorities, a positio...
Early non-Christian writers—Tacitus and Josephus—provide brief but pointed references that align on key facts about Jesus and the emergent Christian movement (crucifixion under Pilate; growth and orig...
Tacitus does include an explicit reference to Christus (the Latin form of “Christ”) and links that figure to the execution under Pontius Pilate, a passage most scholars accept as referring to Jesus of...
Non‑Christian first‑ and early‑second‑century writers refer to a figure associated with the name “Christ/Christus” who was executed under Pontius Pilate and who became the focus of a distinct group ca...
The earliest written accounts that directly address Jesus’ life and crucifixion appear within Christian writings—primarily the letters of Paul and the four canonical Gospels—and are corroborated indir...