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	ACTS - Holman Bible Dictionary on StudyLight.org
		Acts begins in a similar way: at Pentecost the Holy Spirit engulfed the entire community of believers who become the vehicles through which the good news of Jesus was proclaimed in “Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth” (Acts 1:8).
		In Acts, Luke specifically drew attention to the conversions and consequent roles of Lydia (Acts 16:11-15,Acts 16:40) and Priscilla (Acts 18:18-28).
		By Acts 13:1, the influence and missionary efforts of the church at Antioch began to surpass those of the church in Jerusalem.
	www.studylight.org /dic/hbd/view.cgi?number=T96 (2347 words)

	Matthew Z. Heintzelman - Dissertation Summary
		In order to approximate the rôle of the Acts of Pilate within the Frankfurt society of that time, and thus to understand better their importance within local discourses overall, it will be necessary to reconstruct the horizon of expectations of the audience (Jauss).
		The subsequent treatments of the Acts of Pilate/Gospel of Nicodemus in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries (Heinrich von München's Weltchronik, Die Neue Ee, numerous translations) enhanced the text's authority as an eyewitness report of the events surrounding the trial of Jesus.
		They decide to approach Pilate's wife (her name as given by the Acts of Pilate is Procula), and encourage her to intercede on Jesus' behalf.
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	Pontius Pilate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pilate's biographical details before and after his appointment to Iudaea are unknown, but have been supplied by tradition, which include the detail that his wife's name was Procula (she is canonised as a saint in Orthodox Christianity) and competing legends of his birthplace.
		Pilate's behavior was so offensive to the morals of the time that, after complaints to the Roman legate of Syria, Pilate was recalled to Rome, where he disappears from historic record.
		Pilate is forced to condemn Jesus to crucifixion, due to the pressure of the crowd, who according to the Synoptics had been coached to shout against Jesus by the Pharisees and Sadducees.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pilate (3966 words)

	Acts of Pilate
		Some Acts of Pilate, it seems, were known as early as the second century.
		According to him, Pontius Pilate informed the Emperor of the unjust sentence of death which he had pronounced against an innocent and divine person; the Emperor was so moved by his report of the miracles of Christ and his resurrection, that he proposed the reception of Christ among the gods of Rome.
		Later in the fourth century another forged set of 'Acts of Pilate' appeared, this time from the Christian side, and as devoid of genuineness as Maximin's, to which they were perhaps intended as a counterblast.
	www.earlychristianwritings.com /actspilate.html (867 words)

	Pontius Pilate in Bible History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Pilate was a proud man who was both stubborn and cruel, he refused their demands.
		Pilate then became angry and apprehensive, he did not know which way to turn, for he had neither the courage to remove what he had done, nor the desire to do anything which would please those under his rule.
		Pilate tried to conceal his emotions, but when the Jewish officials saw that he was regretting what he had done, they in return wrote a letter to Tiberius, pleading their case as forcibly as they knew how.
	www.biblehistory.net /volume2/Pilate.htm (1527 words)

	INTERNET STORE FOR ANCIENT COINS :: PONTIUS PILATE Prutah/Lituus and LIZ JERUSALEM Mint: 30 AD #203 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Pilate is famous primarily as a crucial character in the New Testament account of Jesus, but most of our knowledge of him comes from the account of the Romano-Jewish historian Flavius Josephus (for more detail, see the entry Josephus on Jesus).
		Pilate may possibly have responded so harshly to the unrest because, due to political machinations, the powerful neighboring Roman province of Syria was unable to provide him military support.
		In the Coptic Orthodox Church (predominantly African), Pontius Pilate is commemorated as a saint.
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		Pilate saith unto those Jews which said that he came of fornication: This your saying is not true for there were espousals, as these also say which are of your nation.
		Annas and Caiaphas say unto Pilate: These twelve men are believed which say that he was not born of fornication, but the whole multitude of us cry out that he was born of fornication, and is a sorcerer, and saith that he is the Son of God and a king, and we are not believed.
		And Pilate after the sentence commanded his accusation to be written for a title in letters of Greek and Latin and Hebrew according to the saying of the Jews: that he was the King of the Jews.
	www.angelfire.com /sc3/nwp/GospelNicodemus.htm (13241 words)

	Pontius Pilate
		The tradition of Pilate's martyrdom was known in the West, where people thought that he died at Vienne in France, where his tomb was incorrectly identified (pictures).
		Finally, there is a mysterious text known as the Acts of Pilate, a kind of report about the death of Jesus, in which the governor of Judaea shows genuine sympathy to those weeping Jews who desire Jesus not to be crucified.
		All this suggests that Pilate did indeed write something that Christians felt to be proof of their belief, and that the pagans felt they had to destroy, forcing a devout Christian to write a replacement.
	www.livius.org /pi-pm/pilate/pilate08.html (796 words)

	Acts of Pilate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The text is found in the Greek Acts of Peter and Paul and as an appendix to the medieval Latin Gospel of Nicodemus, although there is no intrinsic relation between the independent texts.
		The Acts of Pilate does not purport to have been written by Pilate, but instead claims to have been derived from the official acts preserved in the praetorium at Jerusalem.
		An appended text purports to be a written report made by Pontius Pilate to Claudius, containing an anti-Semitic description of the crucifixion, as well as an account of the resurrection of Jesus; both are presented as if in an official report [1].
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Acts_of_Pilate (576 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Pontius Pilate: Man behind the myth
		In the later Acts of Pilate, he is both cleared of responsibility for the Crucifixion and is said to have converted to Christianity.
		Pilate is recorded by several contemporary historians; his name is inscribed on Roman coins and on a stone dug up in Caesarea in the 1960s with the words, PONTIUS PILATUS PRAEFECTUS PROVINCIAE JUDAEAE.
		Pilate ruled in conjunction with the Jewish authorities and was under orders from Emperor Tiberius, to respect their culture.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/1273594.stm (844 words)

	Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. VIII
		Pilate says privately to the chief priests and the scribes and the Pharisees: I entreat you, do nothing evil against this man; for if you do evil against him, you will do unjustly: for it is not just that such a man should die, who has done great good to many men.
		Pilate again went outside, and said to the people: You know that in the feasts of unleavened bread it is customary that I free on your account one of the criminals kept in custody.
		Pilate therefore, having ascertained that he was of the jurisdiction of Herod, as being derived of the race of the Jews, sent Jesus to him.
	www.earlychristianwritings.com /text/gospelnicodemus-roberts.html (14393 words)

	PONTIUS_PILATE_LETTER
		Apart from the apocryphal 'Letter of Pontius Pilate' and the 'Acts of Pontius Pilate', no letters or other inscriptions by him or to him have been found.
		In AD36 Pilate was summoned to Rome by Tiberius on a charge of incompetence, but that Emperor died before his return.
		According to Eusebius, Pilate was forced to commit suicide by Caligula, while other legends say that he was banished to Vienne in Gaul, where he died.
	www.geocities.com /re_kts1/PONTIUS_PILATE_LETTER.html (193 words)

	The Gospel of Nicodemus
		Then Pilate addressing himself to the twelve men who spoke this, said to them, I abjure you by the life of Caesar, that you faithfully declare whether he was born through fornication and those things be true which you have related.
		They answered Pilate, We have a law, whereby we are forbidden to swear, it being a sin: Let them swear by the life of Caesar that it is not as we have said, and we will be contented to be put to death.
		Then said Annas and Caiaphas to Pilate, Those twelve men will not believe that we know him to be basely born and to be a conjuror, although he pretends that he is the son of God and a king, which we are so far from believing that we tremble to hear.
	www.gate.net /~seraphim/nicodem.htm (8995 words)

	Christian Iconography
		Pilate's role in the Crucifixion is recounted in Matthew
		Report of Pilate (cached), possibly 4th century, and the
		What became of Pilate after the Crucifixion is recounted in the
	www.aug.edu /augusta/iconography/pilate.html (68 words)

	Acts of Pilate : The Truth About Da Vinci
		Early-fourth-century forgeries of a supposed report by Pontius Pilate to Emperor Tiberius.
		There are actually two Acts of Pilate one by Emperor Maximian (r.
		No early Christian writer considered either of these documents to have any authority for believers or any place among the canonical Scriptures.
	www.thetruthaboutdavinci.com /faq/acts-of-pilate.html (144 words)

	Amazon.com: Acts Of Pilate: Books: Latin Form (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Pilate said to Him: Art thou then a king?
		Pilate says: Is not there truth upon earth?
		Jesus says to Pilate: Notice now the truth-speaking are judged by those who have power upon earth.
	www.amazon.com /Acts-Pilate-Latin-Form/dp/1419104667 (649 words)

	Extra-Canonical Writings
		The Mystery of the Cross: Excerpt from the Acts of John
		The Acts of Peter and the Twelve Apostles
		The Letter of Pontius Pilate to the Emperor
	www.pohick.org /sts/extra.html (109 words)

	The Gospel of Nicodemus also called The Acts of Pilate
		The Gospel of Nicodemus also called The Acts of Pilate
		We have as yet no true critical edition of this book: one is in preparation, by E. von Dobschutz, to be included in the Berlin corpus of Greek Ante-Nicene Christian writers.
		[The following Epistle or Report of Pilate is inserted in Greek into the late Acts of Peter and Paul ( 40) and the Pseudo-Marcellus Passion of Peter and Paul ( 19).
	reluctant-messenger.com /gospel-nicodemus.htm (12555 words)

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