Pontius Pilate Quotes

Will ye that I release unto you the King of the Jews?

Art thou the King of the Jews?

Well, if you look at the whole story, I mean there's only Jews and Romans in the story. I mean I just wanted to flesh that character out and make that a drama about the people around Christ when he was going through this passion.

That king who pardons the perpetrator of violence quickly perishes and incurs hatred.

What shall I do then with Jesus, which is called Christ?

When you strike at a king, you must kill him.

Jesus was the victim of capital punishment.

I'm Machiavelli's offspring, I'm the king of New York, king of the coast, one hand, I juggle them both.

Judas heard all Christ's sermons.

I'm a King. Regardless of what I've been through and what I've done, I present myself as a King. And I get that respect from people, from everybody I deal with. I worked my whole life to establish that respect and make sure I get that respect.

By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal.

The primary source of the appeal of Christianity was Jesus - His incarnation, His life, His crucifixion, and His resurrection.

Jesus Christ is the beginning, the middle, and the end of all. In the Gospels he walks in human form upon the earth, and accomplishes the work of redemption.

If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.

If the king did not, without tiring, inflict punishment on those worthy to be punished, the stronger would roast the weaker, like fish on a spit

No one is king by his own power.

Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.

I am elected to judge.

I know the title of a King is a glorious title, but assure yourself that the shining glory of princely authority hath not so dazzled the eyes of our understanding, but that we well know and remember that we also are to yield an account of our actions before the Great Judge.

Counsel passes all things to him which thinketh to be a king.

If a king did not, without tiring, inflict punishment on those deserving to be punished, the stronger would roast the weaker like fish on a spit.

Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; or unto governors

If a great multitude of men should call one of their number King, unless this instituted Prince, appear in greater visible splendor then others, can reward those that obey and please him, and do the contrary to others; his Institution signifies little, even although he chance to have greater corporal or mental faculties, than any other of the number

There has been only one Christian. They caught him and crucified him--early.

Omri, king of Israel, has oppressed Moab many days…. His son succeeded him and he too said, “I will oppress Moab”.