Quote by N.T. Wright

Jesus didn't really die-someone gave him a long drug that made him look like dead, and he revived in the tomb. Answer: Roman soldiers…

— Anonymous

“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

“First, we break bread and drink wine together, telling the story of Jesus and his death, because Jesus knew that this set of actions…

— N.T. Wright

When [Jesus] wanted fully to explain what his forthcoming death was all about He didn't give a theory. He didn't even give them a…

— Rachel Held Evans

Christianity as a specific doctrine was slain with Jesus, suddenly and utterly. He was hardly cold in his grave, or high in his heaven…

— George Bernard Shaw

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

“An early execution of Jesus Christ would have been not just an early execution and collapse of Christianity, but also an abrupt end to…

— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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

“Luke 24: But at daybreak on the first day of the week [the women] took the spices they had prepared and went to the…

— Joseph B. Lumpkin

“More to the point, what was the lesson that the first Christians drew from crucifixion? Today such a barbarity might galvanize people into opposing…

— Steven Pinker

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

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