Welcome to Misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman.

The only show, where a six-time New York Times bestselling author and world-renowned Bible scholar,

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

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

Today, we're going to be asking the question, why is the book of Revelation in the Bible?

If you've read the Bible and been left with the distinct sense that one of these things is not like the other,

then you're not alone. Martin Luther couldn't see the Holy Spirit in the book at all. And it does seem to be completely out of line with the rest of the New Testament and is quite often glossed over by a modern audience. So why is it there to begin with? We'll get to that in a moment though. First, let's check in with Bart. How are you this week?

I'm doing pretty well this week. I think I probably told you, I don't watch a lot of TV. None. But I do watch sports. And so this is the time of year when someone like me starts thinking, this is the best of times and worst of times. I really like college basketball, for one thing. and you're heading into March Madness now.

That's the highlight of the year.

You know, I'm not much, I don't follow baseball as much as I used to anymore. So basically, I've got to wait until August or so until football comes back. So it's going to be kind of a dry period. I do like tennis, though. I watch a lot of tennis, So that'll help. For me, it's like the highlight and the low light what I'm looking forward to here.

How about you?

You're probably not. like tennis, though. I watch a lot of tennis, so that'll help. For me, it's like the highlight and the

low light what I'm looking forward to here. How about you? You're probably not a basketball fan,

are you? No, no, not really. It's not really a thing in the UK. So, I mean, college sports in general

just really aren't something that British audiences follow. So coming to the US and having

college sports be this huge production was quite interesting. So no, I'm not following the basketball.

My mother is visiting from the UK, though, which is an absolute delight. It's wonderful to have her here.

Well, that's great. You should tell her to watch some March Madness.

We'll sit down together and try and work out what an earth is going on.

You know, as you know, my wife, Sarah is also from England.

The college sports thing, oh my God, because she, you know, she went to Oxford and stuff.

She's thinking, what? And all this money going to football? What is it?

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