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Misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman

How Many Jesuses Are in the New Testament?

Misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman

Chris Huntley

Christianity, History, Religion & Spirituality

4.8745 Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Today's title may seem a little bit odd - how many Jesuses are in the NT? I'm sure there are going to be several comments on YouTube from people who didn't stay to watch the episode because the answer is clearly "one". For those who want to see where we go with this, Dr. Bart Ehrman is going to be answering my questions on the different ways early Christians and writers of the NT viewed and understood Jesus, and whether all of those views and perspectives can be embodied in a single figure.

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Today's title may seem a little bit odd. How many Jesus are in the New Testament?

0:05.0

I'm sure there are going to be several comments on YouTube from people who didn't stay to watch the episode because the answer is very clearly one.

0:12.0

For those who want to see where we go with this, Dr. Bart Ehrman is going to be answering my questions on the different ways early Christian writers of the New Testament viewed and understood

0:21.3

Jesus and whether all of those views and perspectives can be embodied in a single figure.

0:30.6

Welcome to misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman. The only show where a six-time New York Times best-selling

0:37.3

author and world-renowned Bible scholar,

0:39.8

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

0:47.3

I'm your host, Megan Lewis. Let's begin.

0:53.2

Welcome back everybody to misquoting Jesus. Today we are talking about the myriad of ways Jesus is depicted in the New Testament before that though. But good morning. How are you?

1:03.0

Yep, doing well in getting into a travel season for me. We tend we tend to, you know, Sarah's English.

1:13.5

So we, as you know, we tend to go over there every year.

1:16.0

And we're going to be doing that and doing some other trips.

1:18.5

And so it's a very, you know, for you and me both,

1:23.5

life's very busy, but busy in different ways.

1:26.6

And when I travel, I always work and so it

1:30.5

sounds like it's all going to be fun which it is it always fun but you're like yeah I'm always

1:34.1

working on something so it's not it's not like I'm just I'm not kind of a sit sit on the beach

1:39.4

you know for a month kind of guy how about you you don't look like you're a sit on the beach person either, are you?

1:46.9

I am very bad at sitting still.

1:49.9

Even if we're just sitting and watching the TV, I've usually got sewing or knitting or a

1:55.5

laptop in my lap.

1:57.6

It just does not, I get very fidgety if I don't have something to do with my hands on my brain.

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