Jesus Quote by Rachel Held Evans

The authors of the gospels were unlettered and ignorant men and the teachings of Jesus have come to us mutilated, misstated and unintelligible.

— Thomas Jefferson

The Jesus of the Gospels is surely not convenient for us.

— Pope Benedict XVI

“I argue that the Jesus of the Gospels is essentially a myth. The Gospels are largely fiction. They were created around the turn of…

— Alvar Ellegård

All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job...And I'm prepared to say on that basis if anyone…

— C. S. Lewis

The Gospels were written to present the life and teachings of Jesus in ways that would be appropriate to different readerships, and for that…

— John Drane

“Sometimes the reason people have a problem accepting 'the gospel' is that they sense that the God lurking behind Jesus isn't safe, loving, or…

— Rob Bell

The Gospels were not thought of as works of literature. People were not concerned with the literary reputation of Matthew or Mark, but with…

— Frederic G. Kenyon

Today nearly all historians, whether Christians or not, accept that Jesus existed and that the Gospels contain plenty of valuable evidence which has to…

— Graham Stanton

I think the best way to view the Gospels is to view them as a magnificent portrait being painted by Jewish artists to try…

— John Shelby Spong

“The reason we haven't yet fully understood the Jesus story is that we are gospel-based rather than Bible-based Christians!”

— Eli Of Kittim

“Burridge goes on to say, “[T]rying to decode the Gospels through the genre of modern biography, when the author encoded his message in the…

— Trent Horn

Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.

— John Lennon