Jesus of Nazareth as stated by the Gospels preached and was executed under the authority of Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor of Judaea province.

Tiberius is mentioned in the New Testament, by name only once, in Luke 3:1, stating that John the Baptist entered on his public ministry in the fifteenth year of his reign.

Many references to Caesar (or the emperor in some other translations), without further specification, would seem to refer to Tiberius.

Similarly, the "Tribute Penny" referred to in Matthew and Mark is popularly thought to be a silver denarius coin of Tiberius.

The governorship of Pilate, who at one point reportedly introduces votive images of the emperor into Jerusalem, is plagued by conflict with the Jews.

In the most notorious incident (whether fact or legend) the radical Jesus’ criticisms of Jewish religious leaders, combined with the political rhetoric he employs in announcing that God's rule is about to replace human rule, leads to mounting opposition toward him in both the Jewish and Roman establishments.

Jesus (according to the Gospel of Mark) arrives in Jerusalem just before Passover.

He takes the initiative in bringing things to a head by entering the great temple and denouncing the commercial operations carried on there in the selling of animals and other materials for sacrifices.

He predicts the destruction of the temple and of Jerusalem, but this is to be a sign that God will act in history in a climactic way to restore and vindicate his true people, who will come from all over the Earth to share in the joys of his kingdom.

God’s people must, in the interim, learn to accept suffering, including Jesus' own suffering and death.

Although Jesus shares many beliefs with the Pharisees (who appear in the New Testament as Jesus’ most vocal critics), including resurrection of the dead, their insistence on ritual observance of the letter rather than the spirit of the law evokes his strong denunciation.

He calls them (according to the Gospel of Matthew) "white washed tombs" and self-righteous lovers of display (Jesus is, possibly, attacking unrepresentative members of the sect. Matthew also portrays the Pharisees as plotting to destroy Jesus, although they do not figure in the accounts of his later arrest and trial.)

Jesus, predicting his imminent apprehension and death at the hands of the civil and religious authorities,  shares a Last Supper with his disciples.

He informs his disciples that one among them will betray him.

Jesus is, indeed, betrayed by Judas Iscariot.

The other eleven disciples abandon Jesus when the authorities seize him during Passover in Jerusalem in the Garden of Gethsemane.

Following Jesus’ arrest as a claimant to Jewish kingship, Peter (pictured by Mark and Matthew as a leader and spokesman of the disciples) thrice denies knowing him; he later repents his denial.

Pilate, although reportedly believing Jesus innocent, tries him and yields to the desires of the crowds.

He releases the imprisoned radical leader Barabbas (the Roman governor customarily grants one such pardon each year at Passover time) and condemns Jesus to execution by crucifixion—an ancient form of execution used for at least a century by the Romans to punish non-Roman citizens who threaten Roman authority.

The priestly and aristocratic Sadducees, who owe their power to political alliance with the Romans, play a leading role, according to the New Testament, in the trial and condemnation of Jesus.

Jesus’ crucifixion according to Christian tradition occurs in the year CE 30.

A handful of faithful women remain with him when he dies at Calvary.

Unusual phenomena connected with the event reportedly include an eclipse and an earthquake.

After the crucifixion, Joseph of Arimathea—a wealthy, devout member of the Sanhedrin who would not consent to that body's decision to put Jesus to death—asks Pilate for Jesus' body and, with the assistance of Nicodemus, inters the body in a garden tomb near Golgotha.

The faithful women, who return to his tomb on the third day after his death, are astonished to find it empty, its heavy blocking stone rolled away.

An angel informs them that Jesus is alive and that the fellowship they had enjoyed with him will be renewed.

Jesus' subsequent appearances to his disciples (described in the Gospels in varying detail) revive their faith in him.

Judas (according to Matthew 27:4), distraught over Jesus' condemnation, returns his reward of thirty pieces of silver and hangs himself; or (according to Acts 1:18) purchase a field with the money but falls headlong in it, injures himself, and dies.