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The idea, deepens the faith experience of trying to imagine the sacred texts for the christian and jewish traditions and also think about what we have to learn in a contemporary sense from these ancient figures. >> i think it's great. i think it's helpful to people of faith. i think it's just as helpful to people who are, whether they're agnostic or whether they choose to believe something else entirely, to look at the history of it is only helpful. >> the history of it is what the film does so well. not just the faith, but the history piece as well. >> catch the season premier of "finding jes...

Relentlessly. he talked about his seizure of property, his cruelty and on and on. >> it sounds like pilate had the same problems as politicians today, they don't like the media. >> yes, we don't want to go into that, but it sounds like he could be in the white house now. be that as it may. he was recalled to rome for being too brutal. so when a poor peasant comes before him said to be the king of israel, which is sedition, because only rome was supposed to confer that title, someone like pilate is not going to say should i let barabbas, this murderer and convicted revolutionary go free or shou...

Jesus. >> in the bible, pilate is infamous as the man who tries jesus. >> pilate is a fascinating character in christian history. he seems tormented about whether or not jesus is guilty and whether to condemn him. >> pilate in the gospels is uncertain. he seems deeply concerned with jesus' innocence. >> i have the authority to set you free. >> he's not firm and decisive about what he wants to do. >> the discovery of his name in stone was groundbreaking. >> the significance of the pilate stone is it gives us hard evidence of this central figure from the story of the crucifixion of jesus. so pil...

The pilot really existed and live and really wanted the prefekt. we have a literal touch stone of connection between the story of the crucifixion of jesus from the bible and roman history. >> don't miss the season premier of finding jesus, sunday night at 9:00 eastern. thanks for watching and see you back here tomorrow.

The beginning. >> my gosh, fascinating. >> well told. >> that moment where you imagine them getting goose bumps where they see for the first time engraved in stone the real evidence of pontius pilate. why is he controversial in the gospels? >> you have competing agendas about the way he's written. there is the view that in the gospels when the gospels were written, they were essentially trying to rehabilitate a brutal roman governor, and they were also potentially trying to shift the blame from the romans to jews, the jewish high priest for the cruicifixion of christ. you have those who write ...