The Pilate Stone is the name of a limestone block ,with a carved inscription attributed to Pontius Pilate, a prefect of the Roman-controlled province of Iudaea . Pilate is infamous as being the man who condemned Jesus Christ to a painful scourging and death by crucifixion .

The limestone block, which was found in 1961 in an excavation of an ancient amphitheater called Caesarea Maritima in the present city of Caesarea-on-the-Sea On the partially damaged block is a dedication to Tiberius Caesar Augustus. It has been deemed as an authentic archaeological find due to the area in which it was discovered: the coastal town of Caesarea, which was the seat of power of Iudaea during the government of Pontius Pilate. Pilate also maintained a residence at Antonia Fortress in Jerusalem, but, outside of his annual trek to oversee the Passover celebration, he seldom visited Jerusalem. During Passover, Jerusalem's population swelled and the possibility of outbreaks of violence increased. Pilate's presence was to quell a rebellion before it started. Keeping the peace was of vital importance not only to Pontius Pilate, but to Yhosef Bar Kayafa the high priest of Jerusalem's Jewish ruling council, the Sanhedrin. Caiaphas had been appointed high priest by Pilate's predecessor, Valerius Gratus and Pilate retained him. The two men likely despised each other, but a rebellion would have done neither man any good. Thus, they shared a tenuous peace.

This is the only archaeological find with an inscription mentioning the name "Pontius Pilatus".

The Pilate Stone is currently located at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.

Sacred Connections
Vardaman, Jerry. "A New Inscription Which Mentions Pilate as 'Prefect'." Journal of Biblical Literature

Historical Jesus

Historical Jesus


We possess at least the testimony of Tacitus A.D. 54-119 for the statements that the Founder of the Christian religion, a deadly superstition in the eyes of the Romans, had been put to death by the procurator Pontius Pilate under the reign of Tiberius; that His religion, though suppressed for a time, broke forth again not only throughout Judea where it had originated, but even in Rome, the conflux of all the streams of wickedness and shamelessness; furthermore, that Nero had diverted from himself the suspicion of the burning of Rome by charging the Christians with the crime; that these latter were not guilty of arson, though they deserved their fate on account of their universal misanthropy. Tacitus, moreover, describes some of the horrible torments to which Nero subjected the Christians . The Roman writer confounds the Christians with the Jews, considering them as a especially abject Jewish sect; how little he investigated the historical truth of even the Jewish records may be inferred from the credulity with which he accepted the absurd legends and calumnies about the origin of he Hebrew people

Pliny the Younger

Of greater importance is the letter of Pliny the Younger to the Emperor Trajan about A.D. 61-115, in which the Governor of Bithynia consults his imperial majesty as to how to deal with the Christians living within his jurisdiction. On the one hand, their lives were confessedly innocent; no crime could be proved against them excepting their Christian belief, which appeared to the Roman as an extravagant and perverse superstition. On the other hand, the Christians could not be shaken in their allegiance to Jesus, Whom they celebrated as their God in their early morning meetings . Christianity here appears no longer as a religion of criminals, as it does in the texts of Tacitus and Suetonius; Pliny acknowledges the high moral principles of the Christians, admires their constancy in the Faith which he appears to trace back to their worship of Jesus

These should be enough to show that there existed a man named Jesus who was the author of a new Jewish sect that we now call Christianity. These sources are supported by the jewish writings of the first century via Josephus' two citations of Jesus.




Jewish Antiquities



Jewish Antiquities





These should be enough to prove that a man named Jesus existed around 2000 years ago and he is the source of the new Jewish sect named Christianiy.