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But there are clues to his life. >> in the gospel according to thomas, jesus tells his disciples when they want to find leadership after his departure, they should go to james. >> james was a very devout man. a second century historian tells us that james was continually on his knees praying, so much so that he had calloused knees like a camels knees. >> james becomes the first bishop of jerusalem. >> my brother. >> he becomes a kind of rock of the movement in many ways, because he provides the ...

Theyve been misled all this time. >> the message of the gospel of judas is not simply that jesus is betrayed by judas in his lifetime but that his teachings are being betrayed after his death. >> the author of the gospel of judas is angry, but hes not angry at the events that transpired in the first century between jesus and judas. hes angry at church leaders in the second century. >> the gospel of judas is critical of all the disciples of jesus, frankly. and these disciples are standing as kind...

>> the jesus that we meet in the gospel of judas is a little different from the jesus that we 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 cou...

The disciples as misguided 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 laughs 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 pictu...

Indicating jesus was in a 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 tha...

I would do everything to hear stone love. go beat shorty up, im going to do that so they can say stone love, shorty. that meant everything. i still feel it right now. >> i can tell, yeah. >> love is really -- to be accepted in a group, man, thats human, man. thats any -- >> everybody wants that. >> everybody wants that. >> i know somebody loves me and somebody has my back. >> yes, sir. >> youre still connected to the youth out here. >> oh, yeah, no question. i mean, these shorties is ebk. everyb...

Life for himself and others. malik yusef, a grammy award winner who has worked with kanye west which means he earned that grammy. you grew up here. >> yeah, man, right down the street, about three blocks. >> outside of chicago people talk about gangs. they dont know who they are, what the names are, how many there are. >> yeah, youve definitely got the stones from right here, the gds, the vice lords, obviously the bds, which is the black disciples. black gangsters, gangster disciples, black p st...

It comes to defending it with trump. when it came to obamas legacy, everything was on the table, including our security. thats what this was about. preserving president obamas legacy. he wanted a nixon in china moment with iran and that meant making strange deals. his disciples willing to sacrifice safety. ben rhodes pretty much said he had to lie, cover this up to make it work. >> dana: bragged about in the article when the article came out last year. >> jesse: he had a fake news propaganda str...

And it was a threatening concept. >> 1980s is a period of time when the big, giant, impersonal machine that lives in a huge, air conditioned room someplace suddenly becomes something that sits on your desk. >> something is happening out there, something thats expanding your world. small computers are happening. >> as soon as we have intelligent machines creeping into our daily lives, into our hospitals, into our businesses, then its going to be a new world out there. >> computer stores have beco...

The brain. and it was a threatening concept. >> 1980s is a period of time when the big, giant, impersonal machine that lives in a huge, air conditioned room someplace suddenly becomes something that sits on your desk. >> something is happening out there, something thats expanding your world. small computers are happening. >> as soon as we have intelligent machines creeping into our daily lives, into our hospitals, into our businesses, then its going to be a new world out there. >> computer store...