#12631 Did Jesus Fulfill the Messiah Prophecy? Pilate, Infalibility - William Albrecht

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🗓️ 16 March 2026

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Summary

“Did Jesus fulfill the prophecy of the Messiah?” This question opens a discussion that also touches on why Pilate didn’t gather evidence during Jesus’ trial, the nature of Jesus’ last name, and the Church’s infallibility. The conversation navigates through various theological inquiries, providing clarity on these important topics.

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Questions Covered:

03:00 – Did Jesus Fulfill the Prophecy of the Messiah?
10:43 – When Jesus came before Pilate, why didn’t Pilate try to gather any kind of evidence?
14:27 – What is Jesus’ last name?
18:59 – How would you convince a Buddhist to become Catholic?
22:06 – Was Nestorius wrongly condemned at the counsel of Ephesus? Why were Chalcedonians accused of sounding Nestorian?
29:07 – When is the Church infallible and when is she not?
32:33 – If Jesus was a Jew, why are we not all Jewish?
36:34 – What is the Gospel of Thomas, who wrote it, and why is it considered an apocryphal book?
41:26 – Who was the human author of Genesis? Was it first an oral tradition that was written down later?
45:09 – Last week I thought I heard on this show that when Christ was crucified he set aside his divinity so he could fully experience the pain and suffering of sin. That sounds off to me, is that right?
53:14 – I am converting from a Jewish background. I’d like to share resources to the previous caller about being a Jewish Catholic.

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0:11.5	Learn more at realestateforlife.org. Welcome to Catholic Answers Live. My name is Edgar Lujano, producer for the show and filling in for Sykella today.
0:37.7	Starting off the week strong like we always do.
0:40.5	And second hour, we're going to have Tom Nash.
0:43.2	And first hour, we're going to have one of our reoccurring guests outside apologists.
0:48.6	And we're going to be covering the same topic on both hours.
0:51.3	It's going to be an ask me anything.
0:53.3	But about Jesus. I mean, who better to
0:55.2	talk about, especially as Catholics, than Jesus himself, you know, our God, our Lord and Savior,
1:01.7	as a lot of our Protestant brothers and sisters put it, who better to talk about than him?
1:06.1	So this first hour, we're talking to the one, the only, the patristic pillar himself. William, William, welcome. Brother, thrilled to be with you. Happy to be here. And you're right. What a great topic to talk about during Lent as well, a wonderful, wonderful topic. Yeah, I'm thrilled to be here with you, brother. And hopefully, hopefully people are excited as well. Hopefully we get people calling in really, really important topic today. Absolutely. I mean, there's a wide
1:32.1	range, wide range of topics that we get covered through this. And I think you're going to be
1:35.5	pretty well suited when it comes to like Christological heresies and the nature of Jesus, who he is,
1:41.8	even prophecies, which we'll get into that in a second.
1:45.8	But I think, you know, one of the things that I realized when I first met you and I started
1:50.9	seeing your debates that I never paid attention much to was were the prophecies of Jesus.
1:57.3	And especially the prophecy of the suffering servant.
2:01.0	And I got to go further into that in my studies after you've kind of piqued my interest
2:06.8	when talking about your debate against that Muslim gentleman about if Jesus is the suffering servant.
2:13.6	So jumping off of that, I wanted to ask you as a question, did Jesus fulfill the
2:20.2	prophecies of the Messiah? Yeah, he definitely did. And I'm glad that you bring that up. A topic I
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