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“here are other proposals regularly advanced as rival explanations to the early Christian one: 1. Jesus didn’t really die; someone gave him a drug…

— N.T. Wright

The followers of Jesus did not die for what they believed - they died for what they claim to have seen.

— Andy Stanley

Jesus did not die just to save us from the penalty of sin, nor even just to make us holy in our standing before…

— Jerry Bridges

Jesus was the only One that ever raised the dead," The Misfit continued, "and He shouldn't have done it. He shown everything off balance.…

— Flannery O'Connor

Christ was crucified by the Jews who had wanted a temporal ruler to rescue them from the oppressive Roman authorities. Instead God sent them…

— Paul Weyrich

If Jesus remained dead, how can you explain the reality of the Christian church and its phenomenal growth in the first three centuries of…

— Henry F. Schaefer, III

Jesus' death was seen by Jesus himself ... as the ultimate means by which God's kingdom was established. The crucifixion was the shocking answer…

— N. T. Wright

Even if the disciples had believed in the resurrection of Jesus, it is doubtful they would have generated any following. So long as the…

— William Lane Craig

Apart from it, the incarnation and the ministry would lose all their significance, the crucifixion would be but a martyrdom, and the cross a…

— Robert Anderson

Jesus was a suicide, if you ask me.

— Marsha Norman

At this time there was a wise man who was called Jesus. And his conduct was good, and he was known to be virtuous.…

— Josephus

“Perhaps,” thought Robin, “the soldiers didn’t actually mock Jesus at all. It was just a game, which they let him join in. He might…

— Daphne du Maurier