(Painter pages 139 142).

Pilate demands that the crowd give him a reason to condemn Jesus, and the crowd breaks into a pep rally style cheer about how Jesus is a blasphemer and has defied Rome.

As Jesus is dragged away, the chorus asks, where Jesus's power has gone.

The scene then shows Pilate calling to his servant who is carrying a wooden board on which Pilate writes 'Jesus of Nazareth king of the Jews' in Latin and Hebrew.

The use of the word king is central to the discussion between Jesus and Pilate.

Sting also passed on the role of Pilate, with the role being recast with David Bowie.

Caiaphas brings Jesus before Pontius Pilate to be condemned to death, but after questioning Jesus and finding no fault in him, Pilate sends him instead to the court of Herod, as Jesus is from Herod's ruling town of Nazareth.

In Pilate realizes that Jesus is a Galilean, and thus comes under the jurisdiction of Herod Antipas.

In an attempt to appease the crowd, Pilate orders that he be punished, but not killed.

This possibility filled Pilate with fear, and he brought Jesus back inside the palace and demanded to know from where he came ().

The CBF announced the schedule and right after a message from the union reacting like Pontius Pilate.

During an interview with sports network ESPN, Alex compared the union to Pontius Pilate, the man who ordered the crucifixion of Jesus, according to the Bible

Pilate sends Jesus to Herod to be tried, but Jesus says almost nothing in response to Herod's questions.

Observing a Passover custom of the time, Pilate allows one prisoner chosen by the crowd to be released.

Two years later he played Pontius Pilate in Martin Scorsese's 1988 film The Last Temptation of Christ .

Afterward, the other priests (Caiaphas does not accompany them) take Jesus to Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor of Judea, and insist upon Jesus' execution.

Pilate tells the priests to judge Jesus themselves, to which they respond they lack authority to do so.

Trials by the Sanhedrin, Herod and Pilate After his arrest, Jesus is taken to the Sanhedrin, a Jewish judicial body.

The original cast included Aidan Quinn as Jesus, Sting as Pontius Pilate, Ray Davies as Judas Iscariot, and Vanity as Mary Magdalene.

After Jesus is again found not guilty and returned, Pilate offers the crowd that he will chastise Jesus and then will set him free.

Pontius Pilate confronts Jesus and tells him that he must be put to death because he represents a threat to the Roman Empire.

Above Jesus' head on the cross is Pilate's inscription, Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews soldiers and passers by mock him about it.

He then holds the board above his head in full view of Caiaphas, who after reading it challenges Pilate on its content.

The chief priests informed Pilate of a new charge, demanding Jesus be sentenced to death because he claimed to be God's son.

For instance, after Joseph asked Pilate for the body of the Christ, and prepared the body with Nicodemus' help, Christ's body was delivered to a new tomb that Joseph had built for himself.

()Joseph of Arimathea, a member of the Sanhedrin and secret follower of Jesus, who had not consented to his condemnation, went to Pilate to request the body of Jesus ().

Taking Jesus to Pilate's Court, the Jewish elders ask the Roman governor Pontius Pilate to judge and condemn Jesus, accusing him of claiming to be the King of the Jews.

Since Jesus is from Galilee, Pilate says that he is not under his jurisdiction and sends him to King Herod ( Pilate and Christ ).

Pilate authorized the Jewish leaders to judge Jesus according to their own law and execute sentencing however, the Jewish leaders replied that they were not allowed by the Romans to carry out a sentence of death ().

Pilate writes a sign in Hebrew, Latin and Greek that reads Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews (abbreviated as INRI in depictions) to be affixed to Jesus' cross (), then scourges Jesus and sends him to be crucified.

On the same day, Joseph of Arimathea, with Pilate's permission and with Nicodemus' help, removes Jesus' body from the cross, wraps him in a clean cloth and buries him in a new rock hewn tomb.

Herod and his soldiers mock Jesus, put an expensive robe on him to make him look like a king, and return him to Pilate, who then calls together the Jewish elders and announces that he has not found this man guilty .

In 2010, an Australian production presented by Harvest Rain Theatre Company and directed by Tim O'Connor featured Luke Kennedy as Jesus, Naomi Price as Mary, Tod Strike as Judas, and Steven Tandy in a special guest appearance as Herod.

Cast Charlton Heston as Judah Ben Hur Jack Hawkins as Quintus Arrius Haya Harareet as Esther Stephen Boyd as Messala Hugh Griffith as Sheik Ilderim Martha Scott as Miriam Cathy O'Donnell as Tirzah Sam Jaffe as Simonides Finlay Currie as Balthasar and the narrator Frank Thring as Pontius Pilate Terence Longdon as Drusus George Relph as Tiberius Caesar André Morell as SextusHarareet is the last surviving primary cast member.

Amy Jill Levine states that there is a consensus of sorts on the basic outline of Jesus' life, in that most scholars agree that Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist, debated with Jewish authorities on the subject of God, performed some healings, taught in parables, gathered followers, and was crucified on Pilate's orders.

Book of Common Prayer I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth And in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord, Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, Born of the Virgin Mary, Suffered under Pontius Pilate, Was crucified, dead, and buried He descended into hell The third day he rose again from the dead He ascended into heaven, And sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead.