Q 01/05

Pontius Pilate governed Judaea under which Roman emperor?

A) Augustus

B) Claudius

C) Tiberius

D) Nero

Answer · why

C) Tiberius

Tiberius. Recalled to Rome to answer to him for a massacre, Pilate was still on the road when the emperor died, and with that the governor vanishes fr...

Q 02/05

Which prisoner did the Jerusalem crowd ask Pilate to release instead of Jesus?

A) Barabbas

B) Dismas

C) Malchus

D) Simon of Cyrene

Answer · why

A) Barabbas

Barabbas. The gospels describe him as a rebel jailed for murder during an uprising, so the crowd's choice set a man of violence free and sent Jesus to...

Q 03/05

Pilate is named in which two major statements of Christian faith?

A) The Athanasian and Chalcedonian Creeds

B) The Apostles' and Nicene Creeds

C) The Didache and the Shema prayers

D) The Augsburg and Westminster Confessions

Answer · why

B) The Apostles' and Nicene Creeds

The Apostles' and Nicene Creeds. Both say Jesus suffered or was crucified "under Pontius Pilate", so the governor is the only person besides Jesus and...

Q 04/05

Which church venerates Pilate as a saint, believing that he became a Christian?

A) The Maronite of Lebanon

B) The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo

C) The Church of England

D) The Russian Orthodox

Answer · why

B) The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo

The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo. It honours Pilate together with his wife; the Greek Church, by contrast, made a saint only of her, with a feast on 27...

Q 05/05

Per Josephus, Pilate was dismissed after violently putting down which people's uprising at Mount Gerizim?

A) The Samaritans

B) The Nabataeans

C) The Idumaeans

D) The Galileans

Answer · why

A) The Samaritans

The Samaritans. A man had promised to show them sacred vessels that Moses had buried on the mountain; Pilate's troops cut the armed crowd down, and th...