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The feeling. we didnt want to tell people what to think or how to feel. we just wanted to present the story. so you felt it and would seek more. and all of those things you mentioned. that moment there, where finally the disciples have realized now he is the son of god. they have been following a leader at this point who may have been the next king david to fight the romans. >> that shows their weakness, though, they all ran when he was arrested. peter did deny him three times. that is all inclu...

Saying on the break there, quite chillingly, that part of being part of jeffs sect is that youre encouraged to believe that one day you will go and kill to achieve the second coming, right? >> we are to become gods army. it is our duty to become gods army to cleanse the north american continent of everyone except those people. >> how many people are out there who are still disciples of warren jeffs would you say? >> i would say theres still about 10,000 plus. >> how many of those from your knowl...

Youre encouraged to believe that one day you will go and kill to achieve the second coming, right? >> we are to become gods army. it is our duty to become gods army to cleanse the north american continent of everyone except those people. >> how many people are out there who are still disciples of warren jeffs would you say? >> i would say theres still about 10,000 plus. >> how many of those from your knowledge, from your instinct, would, if it came to it, be capable of killing? >> they would obe...

I said you can. >> that one was easy. >> thats the difference of multiplication. >> that ones easy. >> multiplication is even different from that. it helps me, makes me feel a lot better about myself being able to help somebody else out. >> a lot of things he says, my father has done told me -- i told you. and im like here my dad says that all the time, with him being so much older than me if he feels like he can help me, hes going to give me his opinion. whether or not i take that sometimes i d...

The loaves and fishes, raising lazarus from the dead, walking on water, and repelling satan. but magicians and healers and exorcists were everywhere in the middle east in those days. >> we have various accounts of miracle workers, both pagan as well as jewish in the first century. the book of acts presents other exorcists who were not part of jesus contingent, but they do seem to be successful exorcists. >> we can put jesus on a continuum of other healers. but he still brakes the mold. he does m...

Shedding more light on how provocative and interesting and insightful that 2nd century was, with all the diversity of thoughts so that even a figure like judas can be linked to the good news of jesus. >> so, too, can mary magdalene. for centuries mistakenly depicted as a repentant prostitute, she is the chief apostle in her own gnostic gospel and much more than that to jesus in the gnostic gospel of philip. >> in the gospel of philip, it is said that jesus loved mary magdalene more than all the ...

And she was very close to jesus, a soul mate of jesus. >> you can see the way the "galilean gazette" would have read. radical rabbi and disciples -- including women -- traveling throughout galilee teaching. oy! you know, this would not have gone down well at all in a conservative, patriarchal culture. ♪ >> other scholars say that the magdalenes high profile role would not have been surprising. >> the gospels demonstrate that women could appear in public and speak out in public, that women coul...

As the gospels tell us, he returned home, found his first disciples among galilean fishermen. and soon he called attention to himself, by casting out demons, and healing the sick. >> those healings would have attracted greater and greater crowds, and those crowds then would have provided the base for jesus other teachings. was jesus a healer and an exorcist? oh, i think so. quite a good one, in fact. >> a healer, an exorcist and soon, a miracle worker. according to the gospel of john, jesus firs...

A messiah to free them from roman oppression, to liberate them on their promised land. but even then, there was disagreement as to who that messiah might be. >> in the 1st century, there was no messianic checklist. some people would have followed jesus and considered him to be the messiah, gods anointed one. others followed john the baptist. others followed additional figures. >> in the cosmopolitan city of jerusalem, with its massive temple, the holiest site on earth for jews, and its regal pri...

>> and if jesus is preaching the kingdom of god, he is clearly preaching something antithetical to the normative kingdom, which is the kingdom of rome. >> and if that wasnt enough, the gospels tell us, jesus then took his disciples and his message to jerusalem, the heart of judaism and a roman political power. the fuse was primed, the people wanted a savior. >> and as they sit here on this mount of olives, where we are today, they say, okay, now are you going to set up the kingdom? were waiting....