Pontius Pilatus." Here, Christus, the Latin version of Christ, means 'the Anointed One' or 'the Messiah' and comes from the Hebrew word Mashiach (messiah). The Pointus Pilatus mentioned in this ...

“Christus, from whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of one of our procurators, Pontius Pilatus,” Tacitus wrote. Nero's brutal ...