2.46 The Death of Jesus

History in the Bible

Garry Stevens

History, Christianity, Judaism, Bible, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 20 October 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Jesus' death is the supreme sacrifice. The Son of God takes upon himself the sins of the world to redeem all of mankind. From the disparate gospel accounts of Jesus' death, what can we actually say is dependable evidence? The gospels give us two surprise cameo appearances: Simon of Cyrene, and Joseph of Arimathea.

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0:00.0	Gide. I'm Gary Stevens.
0:08.0	And welcome to the second series of the History in the Bible podcast.
0:13.1	More of the history in more of the books in all the Bibles.
0:20.3	Episode 2.46, The Death of Jesus.
0:25.8	In the last episode, I recounted the many trials and interrogations of Jesus.
0:32.6	From all the gospel accounts of the trials of Jesus, what can we say is dependable evidence? Christians hold the accounts of the Childs of Jesus, what can we say is dependable evidence?
0:40.3	Christians hold the accounts of the interrogations and child of Jesus in the Gospels as reliable
0:46.3	history.
0:47.3	The consensus of modern scholarship is that we must be non-committal.
0:52.3	Some scholars say the interrogations and trials never happened.
0:57.0	Most think that the Jewish participation in the trial of Jesus
1:02.0	is a confused recollection of events now lost to us.
1:07.0	We are uncertain as to what provoked Jesus' condemnation,
1:12.9	on what grounds he was executed and who executed him.
1:18.0	The Gospels say that the Jewish establishment decided to put Jesus to death.
1:24.4	They are vague in ascribing reasons.
1:27.8	All the Gospels name the chief priests as leading the lynching.
1:32.7	Some Gospels bring in the Pharisees, some the scribes, and some the Jews in general.
1:40.6	Luke is most explicit about the accusations.
1:51.0	He records the chief priests and scribes charge Jesus with perverting the nation, forbidding Jews from paying Roman taxes and declaring himself a king.
1:58.0	John records that the chief priests are terrified, that the Jewish people are turning against
2:03.9	them. The people believe that Jesus is a legitimate Messiah because he raised Lazarus from the
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