Ancient Ring Sheds New Light on Pilate’s Role in Jesus’ Crucifixion

An ancient ring unearthed at a Judean fortress is providing fresh historical context for a detail recorded in John’s account of Jesus’ crucifixion. The roughly 2,000-year-old ring bears an inscription connected to Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor who sentenced Jesus to death. Archaeologists discovered it at Herodium in the Judean desert during the 1960s, but […] The post Anc

“Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction…”