The Case for Jesus Quotes

“According to Jesus, it is not just his resurrection from the dead that will be a reason for believing in him. It is also the inexplicable conversion of the pagan nations of the world—the Gentiles.”
― Brant Pitre, The Case for Jesus: The Biblical and Historical Evidence for Christ

“In Jesus of Nazareth, the one God now has a human face.”
― Brant Pitre, The Case for Jesus: The Biblical and Historical Evidence for Christ

“the high priest asked him, “Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?” And Jesus said, “I am; and you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of heaven.”
― Brant Pitre, The Case for Jesus: The Biblical and Historical Evidence for Christ

“The LORD our God, the LORD is one; and you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might. (Deuteronomy 6:4-6)”
― Brant Pitre, The Case for Jesus: The Biblical and Historical Evidence for Christ

“From the ancient Christian point of view, not only was the tomb empty. Not only did Jesus appear to many disciples after he died. He also saved what is in many ways the greatest miracle of all for last. The Gentiles began to repent, and convert, and convert. And they are still converting today. The Church is still here, after two thousand years, spreading throughout the world. What began as a little stone “cut out by no human hand”—with one Jew from Nazareth and his tiny band of followers—has indeed become, as the prophet Daniel foretold, “a great mountain and filled the whole earth” (Daniel 2:34-35).”
― Brant Pitre, The Case for Jesus: The Biblical and Historical Evidence for Christ

“The disciples of Jesus, having no undoubted fact on which to rely, devised the fiction that he foreknew everything before it happened…. The disciples of Jesus wrote such accounts regarding him, by way of extenuating the charges that told against him. (Celsus, Against the Christians)”
― Brant Pitre, The Case for Jesus: The Biblical and Historical Evidence for Christ

“We are accordingly left with the result: that the concluding verses of the Acts of the Apostles, taken in conjunction with the absence of any reference in the book to the result of the trial of St. Paul and to his martyrdom, make it in the highest degree probable that the work was written at a time when St. Paul’s trial in Rome had not yet come to an end.”
― Brant Pitre, The Case for Jesus: The Biblical and Historical Evidence for Christ