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Apr 3, 2014 · Because Christianity is a historical religion and the events of Christ’s life did take place in human history alongside other known events, it is helpful to locate Jesus’s death—as precisely as the available evidence allows—within the larger context of human history.
- 10 Jesus’s Childhood Home
- 9 The Ossuary of James, Brother of Jesus
- 8 The Bones of John The Baptist
- 7 The Synagogue in Mary Magdalene’s Hometown
- 6 A Pagan Temple in The Hometown of Five Apostles
- 5 A Fishing Boat in Galilee
- 4 Herod’s Palace
- 3 A Stone Dedicated by Pontius Pilate
- 2 The Caiaphas Tomb
- 1 The Remains of A Crucified Jew
Jesus was raised in a mortar-and-stone homecut into a rocky hillside. His hometown was Nazareth, a town where people held tightly to their Jewish faith. Today, their homes are the sites of archaeological digs, which have given us glimpses into how the people in Jesus’s neighborhood lived. He and his neighbors filled their homes with distinctly Jewi...
Jesus had four younger brothers: James, Joseph, Simon, and Judas. According to the Jewish historian Josephus, James met his end when the Jewish high priest sentenced him to be stoned to death. As was the custom for Jews at that time, James’s bones were buried in a stone box called an ossuary. Following the custom, James’s ossuary was engraved with ...
After leaving Nazareth, Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist. It’s a moment in his life that most historians agree really happened. John the Baptist was a real person whose life is corroborated by other sources. In fact, we may even have his remains. They were uncovered in the ruins of a Bulgarian church on an island called “St. John” in Bulgaria...
When Jesus started preaching, he talked to people in Jewish synagogues. At least, that’s what the Bible says. But for a long time, historians thought that the word “synagogue” was just a bad word choice. Until recently, they hadn’t found any proof that Jewish synagogues existed in Jesus’s time and figured that Jesus really went into people’s homes....
Not every Jew in Jesus’s time went to synagogue. In a town called Bethsaida, where Jesus is said to have met five of his disciples, archaeologists have found a temple dedicated to the Roman gods which contains a terracotta figurine of Emperor Augustus’s wife Livia. According to Flavius Josephus, the town was renamed in her honorafter her death. Sti...
After leaving Bethsaida, the Bible says that Jesus went to a town called Dalmanutha. Based on homes and other artifacts found by archaeologists, Dalmanutha seems to have been a wealthy fishing town. Jews and pagans lived side by side there, each following their own beliefs. The beaches are designed to land fishing boats. According to the Bible, Jes...
Jesus’s death sentence was set in a trial held at Herod’s palace, prosecuted by the high priest Caiaphas, and overseen by the Roman prefect Pontius Pilate. The group met in the courtyard in an area called “the Pavement,” which archaeologists think they’ve found. Today, Herod’s palace is covered by the modern Tower of David Museum and a medieval pri...
Pontius Pilate was a real person. Years after sentencing Jesus to death, he built a sports stadium and dedicated it to Emperor Tiberius. Before the stadium, Pilate placed a stone slab that is shattered today but on which we can still read the words, “To the divine Augusti Tiberieum . . . Pontius Pilate . . . prefect of Judea . . . has dedicated thi...
The Jewish high priest Caiaphas, who presided against Jesus, lived to age 60. When Caiaphas’s time came, his bones were brought out to his family tomb and cached inside a cave on the outskirts of Jerusalem where he was buried with 11 of his family members. Caiaphas was placed in a lavishly decorated ossuaryupon which his full name was inscribed: “J...
Nobody has ever found Jesus’s body. However, we have found the remains of a Jew named Yehohanan who met the same fate. It’s a rare discovery—few crucified remainshave been found. Through Yehohanan, we can see how brutal the last moments of a person’s life were when crucified on a cross. Yehohanan’s heel bone still has the iron stake driven through ...
Jun 14, 2024 · Nearly 2,000 years later, there’s a bit of guesswork involved when it comes to examining Jesus Christ’s crucifixion. But here’s why religious scholars and historians believe that Jesus was so violently crucified — not merely punished — when he was brought before Pontius Pilate in 30 or 33 C.E.
Jan 15, 2024 · The death of the Lord Jesus was a moment that rewrote and redefined history. If one had to pick one moment in the Bible to describe as the climax, the best contender would be the death, burial, and resurrection of the Lord Jesus.
Feb 4, 2020 · This timeline of Jesus' death breaks down Good Friday's events as recorded in Scripture, including the happenings just before and immediately following the crucifixion. It's important to note that many of the actual times of these incidents are not recorded in Scripture.
Jan 9, 2024 · Discover the scholarly debate on the exact date of Jesus' crucifixion, examining ancient sources, astronomical calculations, and theological interpretations to uncover the mysteries of this significant historical event.
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Apr 17, 2019 · Nailed to the wood of the cross, moments before His death, He cried out, “Father, into your hands I commend my spirit.” Then Jesus “breathed his last” and His spirit departed His body (Luke 23:46). Jesus’ death on the cross was just as real as any other human death.
