The Case for Christ: A Journalist's Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus

by Lee Strobel

“Now a rabbi named Jesus appears from a lower-class region. He teaches for three years, gathers a following of lower- and middle-class people, gets in trouble with the authorities, and gets crucified along with thirty thousand other Jewish men who are executed during this time period.

“But five weeks after he’s crucified, over ten thousand Jews are following him and claiming that he is the initiator of a new religion. And get this: they’re willing to give up or alter all five of the social institutions that they have been taught since childhood have such importance both sociologically and theologically.” “So the implication is that something big was going on,” I said. Moreland exclaimed, “Something very big was going on!”