of its use not conscious. They washed when they entered the Tent of Meeting and when they approached the altar—as יהוה had commanded Moses. The Torah Temimah suggests that this verse tells us that ...

The Roman governor Pontius Pilate asked Jesus that question in John 18:38 after Jesus said he had come into the world to testify to the truth and that everyone on the side of truth listened to him.

The birds of Jerusalem welcomed brother sun’s rise with morning songs. The shadow cast by the Second Temple pointed westward toward the governor’s palace. It was westward, toward the palace, that the ...

Every year, on Good Friday of the Lord’s Passion, Catholics around the world hear the same reading from the Gospel of John. As Jesus stands before Pilate, Pilate asks him if he is a king. In reply, ...

“What is truth?” It’s the question Pontius Pilate asked Jesus right before he condemned Jesus to death. Fast forward some 2,000 years—it’s the same question many are asking in a culture where truth is ...

From the time of Pontius Pilate to the internet age, people have turned their backs on Jesus, the papal preacher said at the Vatican’s Good Friday liturgy. Capuchin Cardinal Raniero Cantalamessa made ...