All right, here we go. Welcome to the Monday live stream. This is the mark series part 66 and the thing

I want to focus on right now is how women were and don't get me wrong, okay? Wait for the explanation

here, but women were a genuine embarrassment to the message of the empty tomb of Christ in the

first century. The modern readers of the Gospels might miss this. We miss a lot when we're reading the

Bible because we're from now and they're from then and we're from here and they're from there.

And so the story of the empty tomb was actually pretty embarrassing and people found it hard to

believe because women were the witnesses, the key and chief witnesses to testify to the idea that

Jesus is tomb after he was buried was found empty on the third day, Celsius, a second century

apologist against Christianity. Yeah, there's apologist for Christianity. There's those who

are apologists against it. And Celsius was one of the old ones, right? Second century he said

and criticized Christians because their their story was secured by the testimony of quote a half

frantic woman. That's what he called Mary Magdalene. Now what's interesting is that when you look at

this from our 21st century perspective, what was a weak point in the first century is a strong point

from a historical, critical understanding of the Gospels. Now you see modern skeptics, they

still reject the empty tomb. Many of the skeptics will they'll say it was later legend, but actually

the majority of scholars except that Jesus really was buried in a known tomb and it was found empty

three days later. I want you to think about that for a second when I say majority of scholars,

that doesn't mean they're all Christians. I mean the majority of scholars across all broad

spectrums, they think that this empty tomb thing really happened. But the first century issues,

the problems they had proclaiming the gospel initially turn out to be more support and strengthening

of the gospel and of the fact, the historical fact of the resurrection of Christ nowadays.

This is why like 70, 75% of scholars nowadays affirm the empty tomb. So here we are in our

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