The Jesus Discoveries Quotes

“Each of these characteristics (see page 30, lower image) on its own might be noteworthy, but Barberis calculated the cumulative probability of a single crucified man exhibiting all seven. His conclusion? The odds are 1 in 200 billion. That is, of 200 billion crucifixions, only one individual would have exhibited this precise profile. Even if one assumes generous margins of error, the statistical weight is staggering. Nowhere near 200 billion crucifixions have been suffered in human history. At most, a few hundred thousand. This means the individual in the Shroud stands virtually alone in the historical record. ​This is not theological speculation. This is probability analysis—pure math. And it lands us squarely back at the feet of Jesus.”
― Jeremiah J. Johnston, The Jesus Discoveries: 10 Historic Finds That Bring Us Face-to-Face with Jesus

“His ossuary becomes a voice from the first century reminding us that the earliest Christians did not see themselves as leaving ​Judaism behind. They saw themselves as finding its fulfillment in the risen Jesus.”
― Jeremiah J. Johnston, The Jesus Discoveries: 10 Historic Finds That Bring Us Face-to-Face with Jesus

“James’s Christianity was not a rupture with Judaism but a continuation of it—fulfilled in Jesus the Messiah. His Torah observance is affirmed in Galatians 2, where Paul recounts how Peter withdrew from eating with gentiles upon the arrival of men “from James”—an incident that reveals not legalism, but the social complexity of a fledgling faith movement still rooted in the synagogue. Far from being anti-Jewish, the early Jesus movement was thoroughly Jewish in origin, and James is one of the clearest embodiments of this bridge.”
― Jeremiah J. Johnston, The Jesus Discoveries: 10 Historic Finds That Bring Us Face-to-Face with Jesus

“The Shroud of Turin testifies to the life, suffering, death, burial, and bodily resurrection of Jesus.”
― Jeremiah J. Johnston, The Jesus Discoveries: 10 Historic Finds That Bring Us Face-to-Face with Jesus

“When placed under the historical microscope, the sacred documents of the Old and New Testaments consistently emerge as reliable. Far from being in tension, the New Testament and historical evidence correlate beautifully, hand in glove. Roughly 80 to 90 percent of the external sources that reference people, places, and events in the New Testament align seamlessly with the biblical record.”
― Jeremiah J. Johnston, The Jesus Discoveries: 10 Historic Finds That Bring Us Face-to-Face with Jesus

“This is not a flight of imagination; it’s the very premise of The Jesus Discoveries. For too long, skeptics have claimed that the Gospels are pious legends, faith-based fiction, or the mythologized memoirs of early communities. But nothing could be further from the truth. The Christian faith is grounded in events that occurred in real places, involving real people and leaving real evidence. And with striking clarity, archaeology, textual discoveries, and historical records are beginning to tell the story again.”
― Jeremiah J. Johnston, The Jesus Discoveries: 10 Historic Finds That Bring Us Face-to-Face with Jesus

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― Jeremiah J. Johnston, The Jesus Discoveries: 10 Historic Finds That Bring Us Face-to-Face with Jesus