Welcome to Misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman.

The only show, where a six-time New York Times bestselling author and world-renowned Bible scholar,

uncovers the many fascinating, little-known facts about the New Testament, the historical Jesus, and the rise of Christianity.

I'm your host, Megan Lewis. Let's begin. The conversion of Emperor Constantine to Christianity is often pointed to as a turning

point in the history of the religion, but would Christianity have continued on its upward

trajectory without this conversion? Was Constantine's conversion one of genuine religious

conviction, or was it motivated by something else? And has his conversion been co-opted and over-emphasized

by later Christian authors? But before we get all of that, but welcome back. It's been a while.

Did you find the Holy Grail last week in Cornwall? Well, I looked hard, and we decided the Holy Grail was probably in our local pub, and so we

spent a lot of time looking for it in there.

That makes a lot of sense. Cornish pubs are very old, so...

They're old, and they serve, you know, they actually don't, you know, serve the kind of substance

that Jesus is drinking at the Last Supper, but they have comparable beverages.

And so we thought maybe there's a chance.

Well, it sounds like a productive research trip, if nothing else.

Well, yeah, I was thinking about how to write that one off, but I haven't quite come up with this strategy yet.

So you were on the Isle of Sky, which is one of the great places on the planet.

So how was it? I was beautiful, absolutely beautiful. And my mother-in-law asked him, my answer was

cold and rainy, which actually for me is a positive, especially coming from Maryland in the

middle of the summer, because here it is hot and humid

and you can't really go outside without being hit by this like wall of moisture in the air.

So it was really, really lovely to be somewhere where you could go outside and enjoy yourself

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