Life of Christ

“Out of 255 verses referencing emotion, one fifth (20%) are verses where Jesus teaches someone about how they ought to feel. Half of those references are about fear and/or anxiety.” - Don Johnson

“Mark immediately qualifies his statement, explaining that Jesus did, in fact, ‘lay his hands on a few sick people and heal them’! This signals that we’re dealing with something other than lack of power preventing Jesus from performing additional miracles.” - Word by Word

“I set out to read through the Gospels, noting down every mention of emotion that I could find. I came up with 255 verses…. The next step was to classify or arrange the references. I could do this manually, verse-by-verse in an Excel spreadsheet, but I thought ‘this is a perfect job for AI.’ And so it was.” - Don Johnson

“The simple answer is that they probably didn’t. There were two groups of people. The Matthew account of the Triumphal Entry clearly delineates between the two.” - P&D

“The final form of the Greek text of the New Testament is what I have to deal with. In other words, I’m suspicious of the whole question of the role of Aramaic. What effect can it have other than to destabilize the Greek text that we in fact possess?” - Mark Ward

“Little children had no status in the ancient world. They did not hold family position, did not own possessions, did not have jobs. They possessed nothing that would give them social status except their relationship to their parents.” - P&D

“The moment is delicate. Questions are good, but they can easily become interrogations. What do we say when there’s so much we don’t know? Jesus once met a woman like this.” - TGC

“Most American Christians think of Easter as only a day and of Ascension Day as barely a blip on the calendar. However, in different times and places, Christians put a high priority on the Ascension. In the first few centuries of the Church, it was celebrated, along with Pentecost, as part of the Easter season.” - Breakpoint