Additionally, the apostles’ willingness to die for their claims has tremendous evidentiary value—and confirms the truth of the resurrection. No one will die for something contrived or false.

Duncan captures the realism of the narrative. The disciples are fishermen, after all. Every one of those fish is money in the pocket. So of course they count them. God’s revolution has begun.

In The New Yorker piece, it's assumed that the Gospels were written long after the fact, that whoever did write them were not eyewitnesses and that Jesus and the disciples did not speak Greek.

As in the events that culminated in the resurrection: the fear, the anxiety and expectations that the disciples of Jesus went through, Nigerians are beginning to wonder, with apprehension and ...

A 2026 release window and sky-high expectations. While The Resurrection of the Christ does not yet have a specific release date, it’s expected to premiere sometime in 2026, assuming the ...

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