His name was Pontius Pilate, and he was a clean-cut Roman procurator who condemned ... “Maranatha” appears only once in the Bible. “If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema, ...

The Roman governor, Pilate, was the only person who could legally sentence Jesus to death. So the Jewish leaders sent Jesus to him for a second trail, hoping he would be found guilty and put to death.

After Jesus was sent to Pontius Pilate, who was the Roman governor of Judea at the time, Pilate offered the choice of who to condemn to death to the crowd, as was tradition. The crowd chose to ...