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	Pontius Pilate - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Pontius Pilate (Latin Pontius Pilatus) was the governor of the small Roman province of Judea from AD 26 until around 36 AD, although Tacitus believed him to be the procurator of that province.
		In the Coptic Orthodox Church (predominantly African), Pontius Pilate is commemorated as a saint.
		Tiberius then calls for Pontius Pilate, but when Pilate appears, he is wearing the seamless robe of the Christ and Tiberius' heart is softened, but only until Pilate is induced to doff the garment, whereupon he is treated to a ghastly execution.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Pilate (2540 words)

	Lesson 13
		Aquila and Priscilla salute you much in the Lord, with the church that is in their house.
		Aquila and Priscilla were impressed the sincerity and the fervency of his preaching.
		Aquila and Priscilla were tentmakers whom Paul met in Corinth and with whom he lived where given a special thanks because of the great work they did in Ephesus.
	www.theapostoliccry.com /Sunday/Feb/prisca_aquila.htm (2588 words)

	Pilate, Pontius - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
		The nomen Pontius indicates the stock from which Pilate was descended.
		It was one of the most famous of Samnite names; it was a Pontius who inflicted on a Roman army the disgrace of the Caudine Forks.
		Lucius Pontius Aquila was a friend of Cicero and one of the assassins of Julius Caesar.
	www.studylight.org /enc/isb/view.cgi?number=T6934 (3078 words)

	Pontius Pilate peee.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Pontius Pilate (Latin : Pontius Pilatus) was the Roman governor of the Roman Empire Iudaea Province from AD 26 until around AD 36.
		The two accounts of the event in Josephus' writings may be summarised as follows: :On one occasion, when the soldiers under his command came to Jerusalem, he made them bring their ensigns with them, upon which were the usual images of the emperor.
		In it, he exemplifies the statement "Cowardice is the worst of vices" and, thus, serves a model, in an allegorical interpretation of the work, of all the people who "washed their hands" by silently or actively agreeing with the crimes of Joseph Stalin.
	pontius.pilate.en.peee.org (3930 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 253 (v. 1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		AQUILA ROMANUS, a rhetorician, who lived after Alexander Numenius but before Julius Rufinianus, probably in the third century after Christ, the author of a small work intitled, deFiguris Sententiarum et Elocutionis, which is usually printed with Rutilius Lupus.
		Rufinianus states, that Aquila took the materials of this work from one of Alexander Numenius on the same subject.
		AQUILA, VE'DIUS, commander of the thirteenth legion, one of Otho's generals, was present in the battle in which Otho's troops were defeated by those of Vitellius, a.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/0262.html (823 words)

	:: ADDBIBLE :: Online Bible Source in the Philippines ::
		Pontius Pilate's family name, Pontius, indicates that he was of the tribe of Pontii.
		The surname or cognomen Pilatus indicates the familia, or branch of the gens Pontius.
		Lucius Pontius Aquila was a friend of Cicero and one of the assassins of Julius Caesar on the Ides of March (44 BC) when the would-be king was murdered.
	www.addbible.com /bfacts.php?id=5 (1122 words)

	bible.org: ISBE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		AQUILA - ak'-wi-la (Akulas), "an eagle"): Aquila and his wife Priscilla, the diminutive form of Prisca, are introduced into the narrative of the Acts by their relation to Paul.
		Aquila was a native of Pontus, doubtless one of the colony of Jews mentioned in Acts 2:9; 1 Pet 1:1.
		The conjecture that Aquila was a freedman and that his master had been Aquila Pontius, the Roman senator, and that from him he received his name is without foundation.
	www.bible.org /isbe.asp?id=653 (699 words)

	The Crucifixion by An Eyewitness Continues 2 of 15 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Sentence rendered by Pontius Pilate, Acting Governor of Lower Galilee, stating that Jesus of Nazareth shall suffer death on the Cross.
		The foregoing is engraved on a copper plate on the reverse side of which is written: "A similar plate is sent to each tribe".
		It was found in an antique marble vase, while excavating in the ancient city of Aquila in the kingdom of Naples, in the year 1810, and was discovered by the Commissioners of Arts of the French Army.
	www.lakekillarney.com /news2C1b.htm (1425 words)

	Women and the Bible 3rd of 4 Bible studies researched by Jenny McNutt and commentry via Sister Avril
		There he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had ordered all Jews to leave Rome.
		OK - I'm leaving the wobbly ground now!] Romans 16:3 Greet Priscilla and Aquila, who work with me in Christ Jesus, and who risked their necks for my life, to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles.
		Heads of a house church, perhaps Onesiphorus was, too.] [All these references show Paul's attitude to women and their place in the Early Church - and in his personal life.
	justus.anglican.org /pipermail/angfran-l.justus/2006-April/002502.html (2514 words)

	The Blog from the Core - Bishops Aquila, Sheridan & Wenski
		We can explain, for example, why Pontius Pilate, though he personally was convinced of Jesus’ innocence, could not bring himself to “impose” his views on the mob.
		Yet, he did not demand to participate with the Apostles in “breaking of the bread” as the Mass was first called.
		Had Pontius Pilate shown up and presented himself for communion, the apostles certainly would had admitted him to communion — but only after he had first repented and reconciled himself to God and the Church.
	weblog.theviewfromthecore.com /2004_05/ind_003584.html (4752 words)

	Agabus, Barnabas, Heaven, Lamb of God, Magdala, Nero
		Pontius Pilate - Porcius Festus - Prisca - Priscilla -
		Aquila and Priscilla (or Prisca) (Acts 18) - After meeting Paul in Corinth, they sail with him from Cenchrea as he returns to Palestine in c AD52 at the close of his Second Journey (Acts 18:18).
		The edict against the Jews in Rome by Emperor Claudius in c AD50, having been lifted or found unworkable, Aquila and Priscilla apparently returned to Rome by c AD57 because they are listed in Paul's greetings to the Christians of the imperial city (Romans 16:3).
	www.ccel.org /bible/phillips/CN720People.htm (8788 words)

	BELLA SION: Bible Dictionary
		He became acquainted with St. Paul, and they abode together, and wrought at their common trade of making the Cilician tent or hair-cloth.
		On the departure of the apostle from Corinth, a year and eight months after, Priscilla and Aquila accompanied him to Ephesus.
		Pontius Pilate was the sixth Roman procurator of Judea, and under him our Lord worked, suffered and died, as we learn not only from Scripture, but from Tacitus (Ann.
	www.bellasion.org /texts/BibleDictionary.html (5623 words)

	U.S. Bishops Address Catholic Politicians and Voters
		In his weekly column (14 April 2004) for the Denver Catholic Register, Archbishop Chaput warns Catholic voters that not all politicians claiming to be Catholic, act like Catholics in office, particularly in legislating against human life.
		In view of Catholic politicians claiming to believe one thing while publicly supporting another, Bishop Aquila, of Fargo, North Dakota, presents the Church's teaching on the proper relationship between our faith and professional life.
		Bishop Wenski, the coadjutor bishop of Orlando Florida, has published a pastoral statement (3 May 2004) in which he compares the position of some Catholic politicians, (personally opposed to abortion, but don't want to impose their views on others,) to the stance of Pontius Pilate, who was personally opposed to Christ's crucifixion.
	www.ewtn.com /library/BISHOPS/USBPSPOL.HTM (638 words)

	More piffle and waffle, misunderstanding and misdirection, obfuscation and evasion; (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		You ask me quite smugly to “prove” the evidence of Pontius Pilate, and the "trial" of an imaginary "revolutionary" Jesus of Nazareth.
		Pontius Pilate existed, he was the Roman Prefect of Judae.There are more than enough sources to verify this.
		Although little is known of Caiaphas, historians infer from his long tenure as high priest, from 18 to 36 C.E., that he must have worked well with Roman authority.
	www.apatheticagnostic.com /articles/meds/med13/med249d06.html (2348 words)

	Bible Translator
		Aquila and Prisca greet you warmly in the Lord, along with the church that is in their house.
		2 Timothy 4:19 Greet Prisca and Aquila, and the household of Onesiphorus.
		Acts 18:2 And found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; (because Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome:) and came to see them.
	bibletranslator.com /propernames/Philip_Saul.html (7645 words)

	Some of the Bible's important women \| Arizona Daily Star ®
		Some authors, such as religious scholars Elaine Pagels and Carol Meyers - both of whom have spoken in Tucson - have done extensive work in reinterpreting and researching the Bible's women.
		Many of the women are unnamed yet still held significant roles - for example, the wife of Pontius Pilate, who had a dream about Jesus and told her husband not to harm him.
		Priscilla co-pastored a church out of her home with her husband.
	www.azstarnet.com /sn/printDS/3208 (488 words)

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		ak'-wi-la (Akulas), "an eagle"): Aquila and his wife Priscilla, the diminutive form of Prisca, are introduced into the narrative of the Acts by their relation to Paul.
		Aquila was a native of Pontus, doubtless one of the colony of Jews mentioned in Acts 2:9; 1 Peter 1:1.
		The cause of the trouble did not concern Claudius, and so without making inquiry, all Jews were expelled.
	bibletools.org /index.cfm/fuseaction/Def.show/RTD/isbe/ID/653/printer/friendly (680 words)

	Catholic News Agency
		I am sure that Bishop Aquila is a good and holy man and I don't presume to question his motivation or pastoral leadership.
		The church is perfect and in it can be found nothing wrong however it is populated by imperfect human beings, both clergy and laity alike, who do make mistakes and even do horendous things.
		Perhaps Bishop Aquila needs to look at his brother priests and bishops before he throws stones at us.
	www.catholicnewsagency.com /new.php?n=5151 (1834 words)

	New Testament
		There, in the face of growing hostility, he went; and there he was seized and crucified, certainly in the administration of the procurator Pontius Pilate (26-36 A.D.) and probably in the year 29.
		From there, Paul traveled with two new friends and colleagues, the Roman Jews Aquila and Priscilla, to Ephesus, but he soon left them there to return to Palestine and Antioch, reappearing in Ephesus after another visit to his churches in Phrygia and Galatia.
		On his return to Ephesus, he began a ministry there of several years' duration (53?-56?) [Acts 19:8-10]-a ministry which produced his Corinthian correspondence and also, in all probability, his letters to the Galatians, the Philippians, and Philemon.
	www.hope.edu /academic/religion/reader/earlychurch.html (6187 words)

	CHURCH FATHERS: De Viris Illustribus (Jerome)
		He was put to death under the Emperors Valerian and Gallienus, in the eighth persecution, on the same day that Cornelius was put to death at Rome, but not in the same year.
		Pontius, deacon of Cyprian, sharing his exile until the day of his death, left a notable volume On the life and death of Cyprian.
		Dionysius, bishop of Alexandria, as presbyter had charge of the catechetical school under Heraclas, and was the most distinguished pupil of Origen.
	www.newadvent.org /fathers/2708.htm (9541 words)

	Catholic Politicans and Abortion
		In a column published in the New York Times, 22 October 2004, Archbishop Chaput raises the question of why people who support permissive abortion laws may impose their views on society, but those who oppose these laws may not.
		In a Pastoral Letter to the Diocese of Fargo, North Dakota, Bishop Aquila, observes that many Catholics are more influenced by popular culture than by the teachings of Jesus Christ, an anomaly reflected in their conduct as voters and public officials.
		They have an inadequate understanding of the Faith, which the Bishop hopes to remedy by addressing "five areas of confusion in the hearts and minds of some of the faithful."
	www.ewtn.com /vote/Catholic_Politicians/index.asp (1281 words)

	April 2006
		The “fickleness of the human heart” is revealed clearly in the readings for the Palm Sunday liturgy, Bishop Samuel Aquila said during his homily.
		Bishop Aquila spoke of the great reverence the people had for Jesus as he passed by them riding a donkey colt.
		Bishop Aquila illustrated the contrast of responses — those who denied Jesus or sought his crucifixion and those who stayed near him at the foot of the cross.
	www.fargodiocese.org /News/2006Archives/April2006.htm (11375 words)

	Catholic News Agency
		As the Christian world focused its attention on the passion and crucifixion of Christ on Good Friday, Bishop Samuel Aquila of Fargo, North Dakota used his homily that day to speak out against the court-ordered starvation of 41-year old Terri Schiavo.
		Schiavo, who today enters her 11th day without food or water, has been the center of a nationwide debate on human life and the so-called "right to die."
		Noting the question of Pontius Pilate, who was given the decision to crucify Jesus, and asked, 'What is truth?', the Bishop said, "That is the question that some of the judges have raised in the case of Terri Schiavo.
	www.catholicnewsagency.com /new.php?n=3467 (513 words)

	Topics
		Aquila and Priscilla - [download] Two friends of Paul whom he met in Corinth, who traveled to Ephesus with him, and were instructors of Apollos.
		Pilate - [download] - Pontius Pilate was the fifth governor of the Roman province of Judaea.
		His rule began in 26 AD and lasted until early in 37 AD.
	www.realtime.net /~wdoud/topics.html (4084 words)

	Study Pages
		There he met a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because
		Acts 18:2--- There he became acquainted with a Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, who had recently arrived from Italy with his wife, Priscilla.
		However, the main purpose of the Luke's gospel was not about the historical places, people and stories about ordinary people (like Aquila and Priscilla in Acts) - they take up only a secondary roll....
	www.ichthus.info /Luke/intro.html (2182 words)

	The Ides of March
		Caesar is waving to the crowd along the route of his triumph and he passes the Tribune’s bench, upon which Lucius Pontius Aquila, the year’s chief tribune, is sitting
		Caesar (shaking his fist at Aquila): Lucius, as tribune of the plebs, you must stand before me in reverence!
		Aquila stands up, folds his hands across his chest and turns his back to Caesar
	www.yaggyslatin.com /IdesofMarch.html (882 words)

	Dio's Rome, Vol. III
		Upon the soldiers that had been besieged with him they resolved that eulogies should be bestowed and all the other rewards which had formerly been offered to Caesar's men, although these troops had contributed nothing to the victory, but had merely beheld it from the walls.
		Aquila, who had died in the battle, they honored with an image, and restored to his heirs the money which he had expended from his own purse for the equipment of Decimus's soldiers.
		In a word, practically every advantage that had been given Caesar against Antony was voted to others against the man himself.
	www.bencourtney.com /ebooks/dio/vol3 (18394 words)

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		The most illustrious prose writer of this or any other age is M. Tullius Cicero; and as his life is copiously related in biographical works, it will be sufficient to mention his writings.
		From his earliest years, he applied himself with unremitting assiduity to the cultivation of literature, and, whilst he was yet a boy, wrote a poem, called Glaucus Pontius, which was extant in Plutarch's time.
		Amongst his juvenile productions was a translation into Latin verse, of Aratus on the Phaenomena of the Heavens; of which many fragments are still extant.
	www.litplans.com /Books_Full_Text/etext04/st15w10.txt (16943 words)

	SECULAR HISTORIANS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Tactius in his Romans Annals (written between 115 and 117 A.D.) spoke of the Christians.
		"They got their name from Christ, who was executed by sentence of the Procurator Pontius Pilate in the reign of Tiberius" (Tactius, Annals, XV, 44)
		Pliny the younger, imperial legate of the Roman province of Bithynia located in N.W. Asia Minor, wrote to the Emperor Trajan with a description of the Christian's worship.
	www.athenschurchofchrist.org /ITF/tract5.htm (312 words)

	Let's examine the Worship of Mary : - www.ezboard.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		But, the famous Jewish philosopher Philo of Alexandria (1st century), although quoting extensively from the Old Testament canon "never once quotes from any apocryphal books" (Archer 1974:73).
		In addition, the Jewish Aquila version of the Old Testament (early 2nd century), which supplanted the Septuagint, did not contain the Apocrypha.
		Jewish historian and scholar Josephus (1st century) totally rules out the apocryphal books both by his count of the canonical and his statement that from the time of Malachi no further canonical writings were composed, although records were kept -
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