Jesus Quotes

“But unlike the apologists who struggle to make historical sense of Mark’s scenario, we really don’t need to waste much speculation trying to solve these difficulties – since there’s a bigger problem with the entire set-up. Perhaps the single biggest historical difficulty with the customary releasing of a prisoner at Passover (Mark 15:6) … is that we have no corroborating evidence whatsoever that this “custom” ever existed. Neither the Jews, the Romans nor Pilate himself ever had a custom of freeing prisoners on Passover (or any other day), not that an occupational governor would ever have offered to release a convicted murderer and anti-Roman insurrectionist even if that were the case. Christians have spent years scouring Roman and Jewish records in search of supporting evidence to justify the historical veracity of this so-called Privilegium Paschale, to no avail (see Nailed, pp. 97-99).”
― David Fitzgerald, Jesus: Mything in Action, Vol. I

“When people succumb to that temptation of ignoring challenges to their faith, they are in the end demonstrating that they are more committed to the feeling of having a lock on truth than they are to truth itself.”[41]”
― David Fitzgerald, Jesus: Mything in Action, Vol. I

“As it turned out, warning Christians that burying their heads in the sand would only marginalize them further was completely intolerable to those Christians with their heads buried the deepest.”
― David Fitzgerald, Jesus: Mything in Action, Vol. I

“Nailed”
― David Fitzgerald, Jesus: Mything in Action, Vol. I

“legendary accretion”
― David Fitzgerald, Jesus: Mything in Action, Vol. I

“Peter (according to John) attacks the posse with a sword and even cuts off a man’s ear; why isn’t he arrested? (Mark 14:47; John 18:10) In fact, if Jesus’ teachings were so dangerous, why didn’t all the disciples get rounded up as well? The evangelists all give different versions of the story of Judas Iscariot, and yet his “betrayal” makes no sense in any of them. But we’re getting ahead of ourselves.   The”
― David Fitzgerald, Jesus: Mything in Action, Vol. I