#12486 Why Did the Jewish People Deny Jesus? - Joe Heschmeyer

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🗓️ 4 December 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

“Why did the Jews deny Jesus as the Messiah and the early Church?” This question delves into the historical and theological reasons behind the Jewish rejection of Jesus. Additionally, the discussion touches on the Church of the Holy Sepulchre’s origins, Peter’s role in the early Church, and the fate of Mary Magdalene, providing a rich exploration of early Christian history.

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Questions Covered:

05:15 – Why did the Jews deny and miss Jesus as the Messiah in the times of the early Church?
12:52 – When the Church of the Holy Sepluchre was erected, was it considered a Byzantine?
21:43 – How did the early Church view Peter’s role?
29:38 – What happened to Mary Magdalene?
32:58 – Did Paul assume Sola Scriptura in 1.Timothy 3:15?
49:00 – How did the Early Church communicate the gospel?

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Catholic Answers Live, Joe Heschmeyer, our guest this hour as he was last hour.
0:20.7	Joe is the author of
0:22.8	the Eucharist is really Jesus. Pope Peter defending the church's most distinctive doctrine
0:28.4	in a time of crisis and maybe, maybe the book most relevant to the questions we are about to hear.
0:35.1	The early church was the Catholic Church, the Catholic witness of the fathers in Christianity's first two centuries.
0:42.3	If you've got a question about the earliest days of the church, whether you know a lot about the church or don't, whether you are a faithful Christian or not, you can ask your questions about the earliest days of the church. I do think many people
0:54.9	will be surprised that just how much we know about the very earliest days of the church. To ask
1:02.9	your question, just call 888-3187-884. Joe Heschmire, in addition to being the writer of those
1:08.8	books, a wonderful apologist and a podcast or his podcast is
1:12.8	ShamelessPopery. You can find it at shamelessjo.com.
1:17.1	Have you been engaged in a great deal of shameless papism lately, or how much shameless papism has been going on over there?
1:22.7	I think a fair amount. I've been trying to defend the actual biblical and Catholic teaching on male
1:29.4	headship within the family. That's been, you know, something that people sometimes have thoughts on.
1:34.8	That, it's funny because that, like, it's funny to think of some of the questions that we have
1:40.9	when we, we interrogate scripture, for example, what one generation or one era
1:47.1	thinks is absolutely the most pressing question about scripture, another generation or era
1:53.8	goes for a completely different set of questions. And that you just, this is not always been
2:00.4	terribly controversial, but in the modern era of egalitarianism and hyper individualism, it becomes very important.
2:09.6	Yeah. And I actually think a very good document on this is Pius XI 11th document, Cassidy Canobey, where he talks about the legitimate sense in which the man is the head and ruler of his house and his wife is to submit to him.
2:23.6	But he also explains what this doesn't mean, that it doesn't mean he's to treat her like a child or that she has to obey kind of in an unthinking sort of way.
2:32.1	It doesn't mean that, you know, obviously if he tells her to do something,
2:36.4	then be sinful. But he also mentions things that are contrary to right reason. That is to say,
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