A silver amulet found next to a skeleton in a 1,800-year-old grave in Germany speaks to the importance — and the risk — of ...

Jesus answered indirectly ... It’s a kingdom that, literally and figuratively, fights. The Roman Empire had beaten all comers to win dominance of the civilized world. Fighting was what ...

Decades of Roman rule were causing ever more resentment. Jesus was born to a family from a village called Nazareth, near the Sea of Galilee. As he was growing up, Judaea was collapsing into chaos.

The land of Palestine was ruled by the Romans, and many Jews expected the Messiah to be a military figure who would fight the Romans ... to overthrow the Romans. Jesus was not this kind of Messiah.

you were making a very caustic criticism of the Roman Empire ... the audience fighting with themselves, as it were, answering back to Jesus is doing exactly what he wants. It's making them ...

Such a spectacle has always been considered quintessentially Roman by nature. But surprisingly, gladiator fights did not actually originate in Rome. The tradition started in Rome in 264 B.C. after ...