Is There Any Evidence for Jesus Outside the Bible?
The Cold-Case Christianity Podcast
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🗓️ 1 October 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Cold-Case Christianity Broadcast, J. Warner Wallace describes the ancient non-Christian evidence for the life of Jesus. What would we know about Jesus if we lost every possible Christian document (including the New Testament and writings of the Church Fathers)? What would the earliest unfriendly Greek, Roman, Syrian and Jewish historical documents tell us about Jesus?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Cold Case Christianity broadcast, the only Christian case making program hosted by a Cold Case Homicide Detective. |
| 0:07.5 | Jay Warner Wallace has been investigating cold case murders in Los Angeles County for over a decade. |
| 0:12.7 | His work has been featured on Fox News, Court TV, and Dateline. |
| 0:16.9 | For more information about Jim's work and the Case for Christianity, please visit coldcase |
| 0:21.7 | Christianity.com. |
| 0:23.5 | Now here's your host, Jay Warner Wallace. |
| 0:27.7 | Well, thanks for joining us at Cold Case Christianity. |
| 0:29.6 | I'm Jay Warner Wallace. |
| 0:30.6 | Today we're going to do, what I predict, will be the most watched episode of our small |
| 0:36.4 | show in the history of our short show. And I know that |
| 0:40.4 | because we're going to talk about material that is actually the most popular material at coldcasechristianity.com. |
| 0:48.0 | Now, if you visited our website, you know we've put lots of information there about making the case for |
| 0:52.4 | God's existence from science and philosophy, |
| 0:54.4 | about making the case for their liability of Scripture based on a cold case detective approach toward the actual gospels. |
| 1:01.1 | And this particular article that I posted years ago, maybe about a year and a half ago, |
| 1:06.9 | really has been the most visited article at our website by a long measure. |
| 1:11.6 | As a matter of fact, if I check my statistics and the activity at the website at any given time, |
| 1:17.6 | there's always somebody, two, three, four people reading this article. |
| 1:21.6 | And we're going to be talking about it because I think it's of interest, |
| 1:24.6 | both skeptics and believers who wonder, is there any evidence for Christianity outside of the Bible? |
| 1:34.1 | Is there any evidence for the existence of Jesus outside the Bible? |
| 1:39.6 | So I've got everything staged here. |
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