the authorities use it as a charge to bring to pontius pilate. >> pontius pilate was the roman governor his jewish subjects and often used it. >> pontius pilate, the very year that jesus entered into jerusalem, was in a very difficult political position. and as a consequence of that, he agreed to help caiaphas and to pin the whole blame for what had occurred within the temple, the disturbance there involving jesus, on jesus himself. ♪ >> scholars think that the most accurate part of the gospels comes here at the end. the eyewitness details of his death by crucifixion, perhaps the most gruesome form of capital punishment ever devised. >> it was a case of a state organized around the principle of terror. and you pointed this terror at anyone who was seen as posing a threat or posing a potential threat. that certainly applied in the case of jesus. >> and to many others. the romans crucified up to 10,000 people during jesus' lifetime, often people just like himself. >> it wasn't unusual at all to have somebody, even a prophet, arrested and executed, even in the gospels, he's killed with two

skinner: jesus is now standing in front of pontius pilate. he's the roman prefect. but he's got a very challenging political circumstance to deal with in the man jesus standing in front of him. he tells the jewish authorities, "i do not find any fault in this man." bond: one of the main things that the gospel writers are trying to do in the roman trial narrative is to take blame for the death of jesus away from the roman governor and to put it as squarely as possible onto the jewish chief priests. and i think the reason for that is because when they're writing in the late first century, christianity is now finding its converts amongst the gentiles, the non-jews, some of whom are roman citizens. and i think the last thing that these people want to be told is that the founder of this new movement was somebody who ended up on a roman cross. and the jewish crowd says, "this man has been fomenting against rome ever since his days in galilee." and finally, when pontius pilate hears "galilee," his ears perk up because he's trying to shuttle jesus off to some other authorit

itself happens to be part of the 18th chapter of john's gospel and where we see jesus talking to pontius pilate, this is the representative of the kingdom of god confronting the representative of the kingdom of the world, and what are they going to talk about? well, what do you think? kingdom, power, and truth. and he says to jesus, "so, are you some kind of a king?" and jesus says, "well, you call me a king," he says, "but this is why i was born and this is what i came into the world for that i might bear witness to the truth." and then pilate says his famous answer, "what is truth?" ever since that question first appeared in the christian bible, scholars have searched for an answer to help them understand the story of jesus contained in the gospels. [ men chanting ] the christian bible as we know it today is made up of the 39 books of the old testament, hebrew scriptures written between 2,000 and 3,000 years ago. and the 27 books of the new testament. at its heart are the four gospels of matthew, mark, luke, and john, the narrative stories of the life of jesus, first written down in the centu

it's almost a pontius pilate moment, if you will, he washed his hands of it. and he's moving -- >> a lot of biblical metaphors here. >> right. >> it is true. >> it is true, he washed his hands of it. and now boehner is out here having to fight the battle. and i also think it's interesting that we talk about the relationship between boehner and cantor and you know, there is a lot of rumblings from those folks and the ones who coalesced around cantor. who said the two months would not fly. and boehner knew that. he said i sort of told mcconnell that wasn't going to work. there was a kind of belief from the senate which allowed the folks in the house call, called the house of lords over there, that while these commoners in the house will just take what we give and they should do it because we're so much smarter. >> and we will be talking -- >> you're seeing that rebellion right now that we've seen all year. >> we'll be talking more about the interesting dynamic between the house and the senate a little bit later. i want to talk about the white house and how this

who was conceived by the holy ghost, born of the virgin mary, suffered under pontius pilate, was crucifiedin on the dead. he ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of god the father almighty. from then he shall come to judge the quick and the dead. i believe in the holy ghost, the holy catholic church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of scents, the resurrection of the body and the life everlasting, amen. >> the lord be with you. let us pray. our father, who art in heaven, hallowed eve thy name. thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, the kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever. amen. [background sounds] [background sounds] >> grant to all who share a confidence in your fatherly care that casting all of their grief on you. they may know the consolation of your love, amen. >> give courage and faith to those who are bereaved, that they may have strength to meet the days ahe