The crucifixion of Jesus was one of the West’s most important historical moments. Even without considering the beliefs related to his tragic end, Jesus knew how to surround himself with enough followers who managed to transform one of the strongest empires in history in just a few centuries.
Starting from Jerusalem and Palestine, the followers of Jesus succeeded in converting millions of citizens ofRoman Empire in a few decades, transforming what was initially a simple religious question of Jewish origin into one cultural revolutionand which severely overwhelmed the political, social and cultural system of Rome, so much so that at the beginning there were several emperors who considered Christians to be dangerous troublemakers.
But which emperor was reigning over Rome when Jesus was put on the cross, around 33 AD?
To answer this apparently simple question, it is not enough to read the sacred scriptures, since within the Bible the emperor of Rome is referred to only with his epithet of “Caesar”, except on one occasion which we will reveal later.
We can therefore take into consideration the age of Christ, who everyone knows died at 33 and was born in the year 0. Too bad that from a historical point of view there is no year 0 and that traditionally the birth of Christ is attributed to around the year 6 or 4 BC or a decade later.
The historical reasons for this inaccuracy are due to the fact that when it was chosen to follow the Christian calendar it was full of gaps. However, two data present in the Gospel allow us to resolve the question.
All the texts developed in the centuries following the death of Jesus agree on two important points. Jesus was crucified during the period of Jewish Passover and it was he who condemned him Pontius Pilate, the prefect of Judea who was in control of Jerusalem at that time.
We have more historical information about Pontius Pilate than about Jesus and his followers, and we know that he was appointed prefect for a 10-year term at the suggestion of the praetorian prefect of the time, Sejanus, who served below the emperor Tiberius.
We know from certain sources that Tiberius reigned over Rome after the death of his adoptive father Augustus, from 14 to 37 AD, and also considering the historical inaccuracies that there may be on the life of Jesus, almost all historians fully agree on the fact that he was under his kingdom that Christ was martyred.
This data is directly confirmed by verse from the gospel of Luke 3,1-18 which however was written about sixty years after the death of Jesus.
We know many things about Tiberius, such as his love of enigmas and that he deeply hated assuming the role of emperor. His soul was in fact more inclined towards military life and he always severely despised all the bureaucracy that forced him to take on the role received from his father.
The end of Pontius Pilate is very mysterious and according to some, how Ethiopian Christians, it had an incredible outcome. Some myths say that he converted to Christianity and became one of the first evangelizers of Rome. Historians, however, believe that when his role in Judea ended he returned to Rome or that he was sent for a few more years to administer some eastern region of the empire.
Regarding Sejanus we know that he was sentenced to death by Tiberius in 31 AD, when the emperor sensed – returning from his long stay in Capri – that the praetorian prefect was lording it over the capital like a despot and that he had attempted to organize a possible coup d’état.
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