Jesus before Pilate – Nikolai Koshelev – First Station of the Cross – Archival Quality teamcatholic as witness

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Jesus before Pilate – Nikolai Koshelev – First Station of the Cross – Archival Quality teamcatholic as witnessJesus stands before Pilate. His Passion is just beginning. Pilate is deciding to have him tortured him for a while to perhaps avoid killing him. This is the moment of the beginning of his judgement by Pilate, more or less the 1st Station of the Cross, which is often shown after the torture with a bloody Christ and Pilate washing his hands. The Russian painter Nikolai Koshelev (1840 1918) had spent a couple of years in Rome (188081) where we assume he