What is the role of Pontius Pilate on Jesus death?
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earliest version of politics. the majority would turn against him so he let them make the choice even though it was wrong.\n\nblair/bush telling us just what we want to hear is so they do lose the vote of the majority...majority rules
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The Latin answers above are correct, but the normal English translation is "Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews".\n\nThere's a good story behind this. He was accused by the Jewish religious authorities of claiming to be king of the Jews. Pontius Pilate, who had come to respect him while questioning him at his trial, had the inscription put on top of his cross. The Jews complained, saying he only called himself this. Pilatereplied "What I have written, I have written".
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why should i care if this jesus died on the cross?
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Without the blood of Jesus dieing at Calvary, there could be no salvation. God sees the blood of Jesus instead of our sins. That's why you pray in Jesus name when you pray.
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Christ did die once for all.  But he sits on the right hand of the father, continually offering that same perfect sacrifice (and Eucharist is our corporate participation in that same sacrifice - where he suffered death upon the Cross for our redemption; who made there (by his one oblation of himself once offered) a full, perfect, and sufficient sacrifice, oblation, and satisfaction, for the sins of the whole world; and did institute, and in his holy Gospel command us to continue, a perpetual memory of that his precious the death and sacrifice, until his coming again: For in the night in which he was betrayed, (a) he took Bread; and when he had given thanks, (b) he brake it, and gave it to his disciples, saying, Take, eat, (c) this is my Body, which is given for you; Do this in remembrance of me. Likewise, after supper, (d) he took the Cup; and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of this; for (e) this is my Blood of the New Testament, which is shed for you, and for many, for the remission of sins; Do this, as oft as ye shall drink it, in remembrance of me.\n\nThis prayer from the Holy Eucharist - Book of Common Prayer - says it pretty succinctly:\n\n"AND we earnestly desire thy fatherly goodness, mercifully to accept this our sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving; most humbly beseeching thee to grant that, by the merits and death of thy Son Jesus Christ, and through faith in his blood, we, and all thy whole Church, may obtain remission of our sins, and all other benefits of his passion. And here we offer and present unto thee, O Lord, our selves, our souls and bodies, to be a reasonable, holy, and living sacrifice unto thee; humbly beseeching thee, that we, and all others who shall be partakers of this Holy Communion, may worthily receive the most precious Body and Blood of thy Son Jesus Christ, be filled with thy grace and heavenly benediction, and made one body with him, that he may dwell in us, and we in him."\n\nEucharist MEANS "thanksgiving"....that's what offering the sacrifice of the Eucharist means....our sacrifice....joined with Jesus' on the Cross....
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Jesus paid the price when He died on the cross for us.  So grace for us is free.  In the earthly world, nothing is free so I suggest we all take advantage of God's saving grace by accepting and believing in Him!
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Joseph of Arimathea, according to the Gospels, was the man who donated his own prepared tomb for the burial of Jesus after his crucifixion. A native of Arimathea, he was apparently a man of wealth, and a member of the Sanhedrin. \nJoseph was an "honourable counsellor, who waited for the kingdom of God" (Mark, 15:43). As soon as he heard the news of Jesus' death, he went in boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus.\n\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_of_Arimathea
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He died so we wouldn't face eternal damnation for our sins. He was a sinless being who accpted his fate so that the rest of man could have everlasting life. What a sacrifice, I appreciate it every day.
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It wouldn't be any different than one dying. The Holy Spirit would help in selecting a new Pope, and the Church would go on until Jesus returns in glory. That would be the day when whoever is the current Pope would hand the keys back over to Jesus.
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hmm... Jesus did not die for a religion or belief... He was the belief, the way, the Hope. He died for us, then He arose out of the grave. Therefore He is not a martyr. But he gave us something to become martyrs for... I talk in circles i know :)
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Jesus took the form and limitations of mortality upon Him when  He descended from the Heaven. On the cross, He was Jesus the Mortal Man, not Jesus, God.\n\nYour question is rather interesting. My best answer is that Jesus is a part of God. What we call 'God' is God the Father, God the Son and the Holy Spirit of God.\n\nJesus didn't die on the cross, He simply went to Hell, as everyone else did in those times. What we call 'Death' is nothing more than leaving this life and passing into the other. We are not erased from existence. \n\nSo Jesus wasn't erased from existence, He went to Hell to defeat Satan and free the virtous, by forgiving them of the Ancestral Sin.
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You used the word "if" in your question and that opens up the discussion to "if" 'Isa (Jesus) actually did die on the cross. In Islam there are two views on this. First that he did not die but was close to death when removed from the cross. He subsequently recovered and migrated to what is now Eastern Afghanistan. The second view is that he was smuggled out of Jerusalem by his companions and that someone else took his place to save his life.\n\nBe that as it may, what you are asking is to reconcile an irreconcileable mystery. This mystery is at the heart of many people's distrust of religion. But mystery is not something that can be answered with the rational mind. The answer only lies in the heart, as soon as we try to answer it with our mind it becomes confused and rejects. But when we ask with our heart then the way becomes clear.\n\nDo you, in your deepest part of your heart, belive that it is ok to sin? To murder? To steal? To heart other human beings? To commit adultery or fornication? No, I believe that in your heart you know the answer. If Jesus did die for our sins then God must feel that sinning is bad enough to show us unequivocally that it is so. And that we must, as God's vice-regents (from Quran) on earth, behave in a way that is without sin as much as we can.\n\nBut we are human, and as humans we will make mistakes and fall into sinning. When that happens we must remember our God and ask for God's forgiveness and turn back to the right way. If remembering the death of Jesus on the cross helps you to do that, than the purpose of that death is served.\n\nPeace and Blessings,\n\nSalim
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yes, jesus was a perfect man, and he didnt do anything wrong.  pilate didnt want to condemn jesus, but he did because the  people were telling him to.  in a way, he fell into peer pressure.  However, in order for us to be saved, Jesus had to die on the cross, so even though Pilate sinned, it was in God's plan for Jesus's death.
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Check out the "Lost books of the Bible" you also can find a book that has all the letters written between Pontius Pilate and Herod. They make a lot of mention of Christ because pilates part in the trial bothered him for life.
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The people who tortured him and nailed him to a cross were Romans.  The usual punishment for fomenting rebellion was crucifixion.  Ultimately, though, it doesn't matter who killed him.  He died willingly to take away the sins of the world.
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The Acts of Pilate (Latin Acta Pilati) which formed the nucleus of the medieval Gospel of Nicodemus, is a book of the New Testament apocrypha.\n\nThe oldest sections of the book appear first in Greek. There are multiple parts to it, which are uneven in style and would seem to be by different hands, but the oldest section probably dates to the fourth century (see below). An appended text purports to be a written report made by Pontius Pilate to Claudius, containing a description of the crucifixion—by which, "Pilate" observes, "the Jews through envy have punished themselves and their posterity with fearful judgements of their own fault"— and an account of the resurrection of Jesus, presented as if an official report [1]. It is found in the Greek Acts of Peter and Paul and as an appendix to the Latin Gospel of Nicodemus but there is no intrinsic relation between the independent texts.\n\nThe Acts of Pilate itself does not purport to have been written by Pilate, but instead to have been derived from the official acts preserved in the praetorium at Jerusalem. An alleged "Hebrew" original is pseudepigraphically attributed to Nicodemus, hence the title Gospel of Nicodemus that the text gained in the Middle Ages, when this strictly legendary apocryphon had wide credit as historical fact. It had a considerable effect upon folk Christianity, and in some quarters, it still does. Its popularity is attested by the number of languages in which it exists, each in several manuscript traditions, or "editions".\n\nOne series of Latin manuscripts includes as an appendix or continuation, the episode "Cura Sanitatis Tiberii", the oldest form of the Veronica legend, according to the Catholic Encyclopedia, in which Emperor Tiberius is cured of his malady. Compare the legend of the Image of Edessa.\n\nThe main body of Acta Pilati is in two sections, with an appendix, Descensus ad Infernos—the Harrowing of Hell—that does not exist in the Greek texts, and is a later addition to the Latin versions. The first (chapters i–xi) contains the trial of Jesus based upon Luke 23. The second part (xii–xvi)regards the Resurrection. In it, Leucius and Charinus, the two souls raised from the dead after the Crucifixion, relate to the Sanhedrin the circumstances of Our Lord's descent to Limbo. A literature of miracle-tale Romance developed around "Leucius Charinus" as author. The Harrowing of Hell episode depicts St Dismas accompanying Jesus in Hell, and the deliverance of the righteous Old Testament patriarchs.\n\nThe well-informed Church historian Eusebius of Caesarea (writing ca 325), although he mentions Acta Pilati referred to by Justin and Tertullian and other non-canonical Acts, shows no acquaintance with this work. "We are forced to admit that is of later origin, and scholars agree in assigning it to the middle of the fourth century" (Catholic Encyclopedia). Epiphanius refers to an Acta Pilati (ca 376), but the Extant Greek texts show evidence of later editing.\n\nThough the Acta Pilati purports to be a report by Pontius Pilate containing evidence of Jesus Christ's messiahship and godhead, yet there is no record in early Christian lore of Pilate's conversion to Christianity, it seems unlikely that the work was ever meant to have been taken seriously by Christians. Its purpose, instead, was to offer further conjectural details about the life of Christ as a pious entertainment, part of a larger body of Pilate literature.
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jesus died so u can too