Of the times of Pilate
BOOK 1 © CHAPTER 10
Of the times of Pilate (1) THE SAME HISTORIAN also agreed with the statements respecting the government of Archelaus after Herod's death and related in what manner he succeeded to the kingdom of the Jews by the will of Herod, his father, and the confirmation of it by Caesar Augustus. He, having lost his kingdom after ten years, his brothers Philip and Herod the younger, together with Lysanias, had the government of their tetrarchies. (2) The same author, in the eighteenth book of his Antiquities, said, "About the twelfth year of the reign of Tiberius (for he succeeded to the empire after Augustus, who had reigned fifty-seven years), Pontius Pilate was appointed over Judea, and remained there upon the whole ten years, almost to the death of Tiberius."
(3) Hence, the fraud of those persons is plainly proved, who lately, and at other times have given currency to certain spurious acts against our Savior. The very time of the date proves the falsehood of the inventors,
(4) for in the fourth consulship of Tiberius, which was in the seventh year of his reign, those things are said to have occurred, which they have dared to say respecting his salutary suffering. At which time, indeed, it is plain, that Pilate was not yet appointed over Judea, if Josephus is to be credited, who plainly said, in the work already cited, that Pilate was appointed procurator of Judea by Tiberius in the twelfth year of his reign.
The high priests of the Jews, under whom Christ promulgated his doctrines (1) Iv WAS ABOUT THE FIFTEENTH YEAR Of the reign of Tiberius, according to the evangelist, in the fourth year, that Pilate was procurator of Judea when Herod, Lysanias, and Philip as tetrarchs held the government of the rest of Judea. Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ was in his thirtieth year when he came to the baptism of John and then made the beginning of promulgating his gospel. (2) The Holy Scriptures, moreover, relate that he passed the whole time of his public ministry under the high priests Annas