Quote by Bart D. Ehrman

“Thus it is written that the messiah would suffer and rise again on the third day," Jesus instructs his disciples (Luke 24:44–46). Except that…

— Reza Aslan

“I should point out that the Gospels do not indicate on which day Jesus was raised. The women go to the tomb on the…

— Bart D. Ehrman

“Christ was born of Mary, suffered, was crucified, died, was buried, and rose again from the dead on the third day.”

— Martin Luther

“The three-volume work on Jesus Christ, on its own, makes this pontificate unique. With it, Benedict XVI created a handbook for the future of…

— Pope Benedict XVI

“Jesus’s rising from the dead was considered as impossible and staggering as such a thing would be considered today. People in the first century…

— Eric Metaxas

“Jesus was not a theologian. He was God who told stories.”

— Madeleine L'Engle

“The prophetic word is not intended as a minute history written in advance, but as a symbolic portrayal of what Christ has already done…

— Desmond Ford

“Our task is to decipher the meaning of the historical-theological text in biblical narrative, not to reconstruct the original event.”

— Grant R. Osborne

“Through the life and death of Jesus Christ, history becomes not the transient bearer of eternal values but, for the first time, thoroughly temporal.”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“What Jesus did was not a mere example of something else, not a mere manifestation of some larger truth; it was itself the climactic…

— Anonymous

“The resurrection of Jesus is not to be understood in good liberal fashion as a spiritual development in the church. Nor should it be…

— Walter Brueggemann

The author is aware that the essence of the Christian faith is perfectly independent of his criticism. The supernatural birth of Christ, his miracles,…

— David Friedrich Strauss