The people of all these regions together, Galileans, Samaritans, and Judeans, however, were referred to by “insiders” as “Israel/Israelites.” In rabbinic texts, for example, the term of self-identification is “Israel/Israelite.” One of the most accessible texts in which to see the difference between the outsiders’ term of reference and the insiders’ term comes in the crucifixion scene in Mark’s Gospel. Pilate, the Roman governor of Judea, crucifies Jesus, who has come from Galilee, which is ruled