Pilate Stone

Mara Bar-Serapion wrote, "What advantage did the Jews gain from executing their wise king? Since that time, their kingdom was abolished." King James Version.

Number ten, the Pilate Inscription.

Discovered in 1961, the Pilate Inscription confirms the historical existence of Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor who ordered the crucifixion of Jesus.

This archaeological discovery reinforces the Gospel narrative and the historicity of the context in which Jesus lived.

The Latin inscription reads, "Tiberium Pontius Pilatus, prefect of Judea, dedicated." King James Version.

He's not made up.

There's the Pilate stone that was found in 1961.

It doesn't say too much, but it's a stone that says the Tiberium Pontius Pilatus, prefect of Judea, has dedicated.

And then it cuts off.

About 80% of the Bible is history, so it, and, and it, it's used by secular archeologists and historians to identify places and people, and it says, "Hey, there was this king and there was this war." And archeologists, archeology has proven that time and time again.

In fact, one questionable character was Pontius Pilate, because we didn't have much about him in archeology, and then they find the Pilate Stone to verify that there was indeed this governor n- known as Pontius Pilate.

Mm.

And so that's true of, like, the Babylonians, and, uh, Nebuchadnezzar, and Darius, and so these different kings and different prophets and different people like Abraham, w- who, and David, King David, and Daniel, who lived at certain times and in certain places.