Bill O'Reilly here and I'm warming up from the NRIA.net Studios in New York.

Stand by for the O'Reilly Update Morning Edition.

On this Monday, if you are Christian, you might consider reading my book, Killing Jesus

during Lent.

Actually, it's a history book.

There's no religion in it at all.

But it answers this question, how did a 33 year old man living in a remote part of the

world become the most famous person ever to live on planet Earth?

Well, it is an amazing story.

Jesus of Nazareth was a stone cutter.

Now most religion classes will tell you he and his father Joseph were carpenters, but

there's one problem with that.

There were very few trees in Judea where they lived.

In fact, the cross Jesus was crucified on by the Romans had been used about a dozen

times before because there wasn't enough wood to make those kinds of crosses.

So they reused them.

Anyway, Jesus began preaching at about age 31, 32 in that zone.

Then at first there were a few people that came and listened to them, and then there were

hundreds, and then there were thousands.

So why did that happen?

You couldn't hear Jesus.

There wasn't a microphone back then.

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