Caiaphas
Americannoun
noun
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In an interview, Marans said the play is not perfect — he still has concerns about the depiction of Caiaphas — but that “the progress is monumental.”
From New York Times • Aug. 24, 2022
The main characters are all familiar to anyone with a working knowledge of the New Testament — Jesus, Judas, Mary Magdalene, Caiaphas, Pontius Pilate, Herod and the disciples.
From Washington Post • Mar. 30, 2018
He wrote, “Blame yourself, O humankind, whether of the Jews or the Gentiles. . . . Not only Caiaphas and Pilate, but I myself am the murderer.”
From The New Yorker • Dec. 25, 2016
Two of those figures, Pontius Pilate and Caiaphas, the Jewish high priest, conspire and scheme with and against each other in an effort to maintain order and control.
From Newsweek • Apr. 5, 2015
With tears in his eyes, he held out his sinewy right hand consolingly to Caiaphas.
From On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau by Hillern, Wilhelmine von
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