And when Jesus doesn’t answer—either out of a refusal to speak, as is often the case in the Gospels, or out of the doubt that wracks Dafoe’s Jesus—Pilate cannot help but feel disappointed.

Bill O'Reilly's 'Killing Jesus' TV Movie Casts Lebanese-American as Christ. ... best known for “True Blood,” will portray Pontius Pilate in the TV film, set to start filming this fall.

Yes, Pontius Pilate is the man who oversaw the trial and crucifixion of Jesus Christ. But Ben Daniels, who plays him in NBC’s live broadcast of Jesus Christ Superstar, considers Pilate’s ...

The New Pornographers are debuting their new track “Pontius Pilate’s Home Movies” in anticipation of their forthcoming album Continue as a Guest. The band previously shared the record’s ...

It’s a straightforward part of the Easter story: The Roman governor Pontius Pilate had Jesus of Nazareth killed by his soldiers. He imposed a sentence that Roman judges often inflicted on social ...

One thing is for sure: Without Jesus almost no one would know Pilate’s name and without Pilate there would be no Christianity. Pontius Pilate was the fifth prefect of the Roman province of Judea ...

Nicolas Cage wants to play Pontius Pilate in the musical “Jesus Christ Superstar.” During the red carpet at the Golden Globes, Cage was asked by Variety ‘s Marc Malkin about a genre that he ...