New research suggests that a burial site once venerated by Christian pilgrims likely belonged to a member of Herod’s dynasty ...

Jesus was then led out of the house and looked directly at Peter, who remembered how Jesus had said Peter would deny him and wept bitterly. Judas, who was watching from a distance, ...

We may never know whether Jesus' paternal grandfather through Joseph was Jacob (Matt. 1:15) or Heli (Luke 3:23b), and it could well be that they were brothers, with Heli the uncle and legal line ...

Reading the New Testament in order, with the Gospels first, by the time we get to Paul we already know, as he says, that Jesus was crucified (1 Corinthians 1.17 – 2.5; Galatians 3.1; 6.14; Philippians ...

A detail from “Christ before Pilate,” by Mihály Munkácsy (1881). Based on John 18 and 19 and Luke 23, it depicts Jesus standing between his accusers and a hesitant Roman governor Pontius Pilate.

Jesus’s words are a cry of horror and pain at God’s abandonment; and they are the profoundest testimony to the magnitude of God’s action precisely here. At this moment, ...

And John says Jesus was stabbed in the side with a spear after he died, “bringing a sudden flow of blood and water” (19:34), which is the one explicit mention of blood in the texts.