The prefect of the Roman province of Judea from AD 26-36. In the Gospels Pilate appears to be a reasoned thoughtful ruler but he is portrayed elsewhere as brutal and cruel. He is said to have been deposed in AD 36 for a particularly brutal suppress...

Also known as Publius Sulpicus Quirinius, legate or governor of Syria from AD 6-12. Luke's Gospel associates a census with him at the time of Jesus' birth.

A group of Jews, often mentioned alongside the Pharisees in the Gospels, but very different from them. We know much less about the Sadducees than about the Pharisees but they seem to be a group of aristocratic Jews, particularly connected with the T...

An assembly of judges who ruled over Judea in the post-exilic period. They had authority for all religious and political life – an authority they needed to negotiate with the Romans during the Roman period. The Sanhedrin are mentioned in the Gospe...

Often mentioned alongside the Pharisees in the Gospels as opposing Jesus. The scribes were clearly educated so it is most likely that they were off-duty priests who served their local communities by interpreting the law and acting as scribes in the ...

Built on the same site as Solomon's Temple to replace the Temple that was destroyed by the Babylonians. Built in around 516 BC it was finally destroyed in AD 70 by the Romans. The second temple was originally thought to have been built to the ...

Only mentioned in John 19.13, the Greek word lithostrotos probably refers to the mosaic pavement on which the judgement seat sat. The Hebrew word gabbatha means elevation and so refers to the elevation of Pilate's judgement seat. This is known...

A mountain in Galilee near the Jezreel valley. The location of a key battle during the time of the prophet Deborah in Judges 19. Is thought by some to be where the transfiguration of Jesus took place in the Gospels.

With this downloadable script and PowerPoint slides, you can make the case for the historical credibility of the gospel and its power to change lives beyond Christmas.

Our latest trek takes us to the sunny coastal region of Caesarea. This was a place known for architecture and innovation as Herod created a ‘mini-Rome’, complete with amphitheatre, hippodrome and harbour. In this location, with Andrew Ollerton as...

Romans is the longest of all Paul’s writings and is widely regarded as one of the most important letters that he wrote. It is written to the Christians in Rome and is unusual in that the church there was one of the few that Paul had not founded, ma...

What we call Paul’s second letter to the Corinthians was probably at least his fourth letter to them – references in 1 and 2 Corinthians point to letters written before the ones we now have in the New Testament. By the time Paul wrote 2 Corinthia...

1 Peter is often called the most hope-filled book of the New Testament. The theme that runs all the way through it is how to live faithfully in a hostile environment. The answer it gives is that the power of the gospel – new life and identity in Ch...

I was angry about the blood and violence in the Bible for many years. After my initial enthusiasm for the Bible, when I was 19, I felt that I had to defend it. But I felt that it was misogynistic, patriarchal, stuff worse than I believed before I kne...

I come from a Jewish background. I was a liberal Jew so we only went to synagogue for big events. They read from the five scrolls of the Torah, but there was no translation, so you had no idea what was being read. I had no knowledge of the Bible, but...

I was 22 or 23 in 1969. After church, we went back to the pastor’s home. They had a black and white TV, a hazy picture, and we watched the moon landings. It was riveting. This wasn’t just driving to the end of the street! I saw that God’s world...

When I was 20, and a student nurse in London, I attended a Bible study class, where I heard that scripture was inspired by God. The verse was 2 Timothy 3.16-17, ‘All scripture is God-breathed and it is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and ...

‘When I was 16, a friend of mine told me that he had become a Christian. We grew up in church together, so I thought he already was. I thought, “Why does he need to become a Christian?” The following week our pastor started a series on Ephesian...

Easter is a time when Christians remember the death and resurrection of Jesus. The story is so significant that it is told in all four Gospel accounts in the New Testament.

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