There are several resurrection stories in the New Testament, including, of course, Jesus himself,

but what about the mass resurrection in the Gospel of Matthew?

Today, Dr. Bart Ehrman joins me to discuss why the righteous were raised from the dead,

when Jesus came for sinners, and what happened to them after their resurrection.

Welcome to Misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman.

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the historical Jesus, and the rise of Christianity. I'm

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Welcome back everybody to misquoting Jesus where today we're talking about zombies in the Gospel of Matthew.

We've also got listeners

questions at the end where I'll be asking whether Jesus himself told the apostles he'd be

resurrected after he died and if there's a relationship between the Gospel of John and the

epistles of John. So make sure you stick around for all of those. But before the zombies,

before all the Halloween stuff, how are you doing this week?

I'm doing very well.

So as we were saying right before we got on, I had a, I had my 70th birthday last weekend.

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