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Idiots, people who dont have access to the truth. really jesus treats them as a lost cause. >> in the gospel of judas, the other disciples are praying and venerating in ways that make jesus laugh at them. >> why are you laughing at the thanksgiving? >> and they seem to be leading people astray. >> it is what is right. >> i am not laughing at you! >> nor are you doing this by your will but rather it is by this that your god will be praised. >> the gospel of judas pictures the disciples as clueles...

Know from the pages of the new testament. hes a much more mysterious character who speaks in riddles that are so difficult to understand that a lot of the time were left scratching our heads when we read it. >> let the strong one among you bring forth the perfect human. >> but the character of judas is also completely different. >> the other disciples fail to understand jesus, and only judas has the courage to stand up and speak to him. >> i know who you are. and once you have come, and im not w...

Clearly it would have been an important artifact for the disciples and then the early christians, so the notion that it would have been preserved makes total sense to me. my gut tells me that its real. >> it doesnt seem likely to me that its real, but the turin shroud focuses our attention on something unavoidable about the jesus story, just how much he suffers. jesus may be glorious, enthroned in heaven, lord of lord, king of kings, but this moment of suffering and pain is etched into the turin...

Judas. his betrayal. how it may have all started at the last supper. >> when jesus had his disciples meet at the last supper, the tension is really building up. through the week that theyve been in jerusalem, there have been increasing conflicts with authorities. something big was about to happen. >> i think theres a real sense of foreboding at the last supper, the way that its portrayed in the gospels. >> theres that moment at the meal, this intimacy. to eat a meal with somebody is to be family...

Subordinate position which was a problem for the early church. >> for all the attempts by the gospel writers to reconcile johns status with that of jesus, what is certain is that ultimately it is jesus movement that survives and prospers. >> initially, it seems that john is a mentor figure to jesus. after all, hes baptizing jesus in the river jordan and has attracted him there. but afterwards they go their separate ways. >> one of the great lines of john the baptist that i really, really love is...

Spreads across the world. >> johns disciples are still around long after the death of jesus. perhaps the biggest difference is that ultimately, in the early jesus movement, theres an appeal to gentiles and as soon as the gentiles are converting to this new movement, we get a much more successful global kind of mission. >> but johns voice can still be heard in a very direct way through one of jesus most famous teachings, the lords prayer itself. >> father, hallowed be thy name. >> the words spoke...

Of a jihadist terror cell and were planning attacks in spain. police also say they were believed to be recruiting fighters to send to syria and iraq. an american health worker infected with ebola will soon begin treatment in maryland. the patient will arrive today at the national institutes of health. it is the same hospital where dallas nurse nina pham survived and is ebola free. the health worker had been volunteering in sierra leone and was transported from northern africa in isolation on a...

So yes, there is a judas and yes, hes a betrayer but this manuscript said he was closest to jesus, that i rebuke because the gospels, in all of the four gospels theres a list of disciples. peter, james and john are listed always the first three, and then there is some shuffling of the other names up or down but judas is always listed last. any time there is some dialogue with jesus is when -- real dialogue is when mary anointed the feet of jesus and dried them with this expensive perfume with he...

Repent and turn towards god, john the baptist had dared to speak truth unto power. and for this, he pays the ultimate price. >> i think he understood that he was a martyr. he was a martyr in the cause of something greater. he was the martyr in the cause of a beautiful kingdom of god on earth, which is what he had preached all his life. >> i see jesus and john as being very similar in terms of their conception of god, in terms of what they wanted people to do, in terms of their call for repentanc...

Joseph of arimathea. the bible also reveals that joseph had help in burying jesus. another member of the jewish council, nicodemus. >> nicodemus, much like joseph of arimathea, was also a member of the sanhedrin, a prominent man in jewish society. >> its clear that not all the jews in jerusalem were behind jesus death. for the simple reason that jesus was jewish, his followers and disciples were jewish. not only that, not even all the jewish authorities were responsible for jesus death because y...