Pilate, Pontius

Roman governor of Judaea during the time of Jesus' ministry

• Matthew 27:2

  And when they had bound him, they led him away, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor.

• Luke 3:1

  Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Cæsar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judæa, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituræa and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene,

Causes the slaughter of certain Galileans

• Luke 13:1

  There were present at that season some that told him of the Galilæans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.

Tries Jesus and orders his crucifixion

• John 18:28–40

  Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the passover. Pilate then went out unto them, and said, What accusation bring ye against this man? They answered and said unto him, If he were not a malefactor, we would not have delivered him up unto thee. …

• Acts 3:13

  The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him go.

• Acts 4:27

  For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together,

• Acts 13:28

  And though they found no cause of death in him, yet desired they Pilate that he should be slain.

• 1 Timothy 6:13

  I give thee charge in the sight of God, who quickeneth all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession;

Matthew 27, Mark 15, Luke 23, John 19

Allows Joseph of Arimathaea to take Jesus' body

• Matthew 27:57

  When the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathæa, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus' disciple:

• Matthew 27:58

  He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered.

• Mark 15:43–45

  Joseph of Arimathæa, an honourable counsellor, which also waited for the kingdom of God, came, and went in boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus. And Pilate marvelled if he were already dead: and calling unto him the centurion, he asked him whether he had been any while dead. And when he knew it of the centurion, he gave the body to Joseph.

• Luke 23:52

  This man went unto Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus.

• John 19:38

  And after this Joseph of Arimathæa, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave him leave. He came therefore, and took the body of Jesus.