The Famous Pontius Pilate Inscription.
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I pray you had a blessed Christmas including a coming new year.
Lets now continue with at another type of treasure to illustrate a truth which was waiting to be discovered, confirming how Archaeology confirms the Bible.
These buried treasures are being uncovered every year, popping out of the earth like a wonderful surprise, revealing hidden secrets, just like the bulbs in springtime emerging from the ground and giving us flowers which give us pleasure with their beauty and fragrance. So are the hidden treasures of the Bible that spring out of the earth unlocking hidden evidence.
We travel to Tiberias at Caesarea on the Mediterranean Sea in Israel where the famous Pontius Pilate Inscription was discovered.
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English: The "Pilate Inscription" from Caesarea Maritima, Israel.
The inscription reads: This building - Tiberium By Pontius Pilatus Prefect of Judea Has been built.
Pontius Pilate was the fifth governor of Roman Judea, under whose governance Jesus of Nazareth was crucified (Matt 27:2, plus 60 additional occurrences in the gospels, Acts, and 1 Timothy).
The Pilate stone inscription was found in 1961 in the ruins of an amphitheatre at Caesarea Maritima. The inscription is on a limestone block which was a dedication to Tiberius Caesar Augustus.
This stone inscription is absolute proof that a man called Pontius Pilatus known in the English-speaking world as Pontius Pilate LIVED and was the fifth Prefect of the Roman province of Judaea, from AD 26-36. The Bible states he was the governor.
The existence of Pontius Pilate is also confirmed by canonical gospels, the works of Philo and Josephus, a brief mention by Tacitus, and THE GOSPEL OF NICODEMUS OR ACTS OF PILATE.
I Simon Brown also purchased some of Pilate coins which I found interesting to own Bronze Prutah minted by Pontius Pilate and date LIS (year 16 = AD 29/30)
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Again theses coins are physical evidence relating to Pilate. Evidence that a man called Pontius Pilate LIVED. When I received these coins they came with a note which states after the crucifixion of Jesus that Pontius Pilate and his wife became followers of Jesus.
I am not certain of how true this is as it is said that Pontius Pilate committed suicide there in Vienne and the 10th century historian Agapius of Hierapolis, in his Universal History, says that Pilate committed suicide during the first year of Caligula's reign, i.e. AD 37/38.
If this is true, suicide is against the Lords teachings which would add doubt to Pontius Pilate becoming a follower of Jesus unless the story of Pilate committing suicide was not true.
What is certain is his wife warned Pontius Pilate saying: When he was set down on the judgment seat, his wife sent unto him, saying, Have thou nothing to do with that just man: for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him. Matthew 27:19 So, Pontius Pilates wife most certainly believed which would confirm with her becoming a follower.
Pontius Pilate is most famous for the trial of Jesus. Pilate appears in association with the responsibility for the death of Jesus. In Matthew, Pilate washes his hands to show that he was not responsible for the execution of Jesus and reluctantly sends him to his death.
We know from the gospels that Pontius Pilate was very uncomfortable with the idea of killing Jesus, who in his eyes had committed no crime.
What do you accuse this man of? The Pharisee replied "We would not have brought him to you if he had not committed a crime. Pilate replied "Then you yourselves take him, and try him according to your own law. The Pharisee replied 'we are not allowed to put anyone to death'. This happened in order to confirm what Jesus had said when he indicated the kind of death he would die.
So Pilate had Jesus whipped and scourged instead to try to pacify the Jewish authorities and save Jesus from execution.
THE GOSPEL OF JOHN tells us: The soldiers made a crown out of thorny branches and put it on his head. Then they put a purple robe on him, and came to him, and said, long live the king of the Jews!"
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But Pilate was unsuccessful and the people demanded that Jesus be crucified.
AGAIN WE HAVE Archaeology PROVING THE BIBLE. |
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