The Resurrection Of JESUS: Forgotten FACTS & IMPACT 

Honestly, one of the greatest reasons that won me over as a skeptical scientist was the historicity and reliability of the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. By all signs of historical criteria like multiple attestation and eyewitness testimony, the criterion of embarrassment, lack of legendary elements, textual overlap with independent ancient Jewish historians, presence of early oral creeds, etc. all testify that Jesus Christ was an actual person, a Jew, who lived in Galilee, had followers and was crucified (which is the scholarly consensus), as well as the discovery of an empty tomb by women followed by post-crucifixion appearances. It’s enough to make even honest skeptical scholars hesitate on an inward breath. Edit: I'll just leave the following quote here: "According to Jacob Kremer, a New Testament critic who has specialized in the study of the resurrection: 'By far most exegetes hold firmly to the reliability of the biblical statements about the empty tomb.' In fact in a bibliographical survey of over 2,200 publications on the resurrection in English, French and German since 1975, Habermas found that 75 percent of scholars accepted the historicity of the discovery of Jesus' empty tomb."

Please pray for my marriage. I am a follower of Christ.

Hi from Africa. Thank you, brother, for these videos. Please pray for us in Africa.

I’m a nurse. I believe completely that Jesus came back. He wasn’t a normal person, He was both God and man. He also raised others…😏

I've been watching your videos for months and you're definitely changing my life. I was an atheist for over 20 years but now I'm starting to see the light.

I’ll say this again. The single most demonstrable miracle we have today is the fact that Jesus said His gospel would be preached to all the nations. Here we are.

Glory and Hallelujah! I was once dead in my sin, but now I’m forgiven and saved by His Precious Blood! Hallelujah!!!

Beautifully said, praise to you Lord Jesus Christ.

0:00: 📺 The video discusses the bold claim of Christianity that Jesus rose from the dead. 2:10: 📚 Most Jews at the time did not believe in the resurrection of one person in the middle, as they believed it was something that God would do for all his people at the end of time. 4:18: 📚 The early Christians believed in the bodily resurrection of Jesus and their belief was not a result of hallucination or ignorance. 6:29: 👩‍⚖ The early church recognized women as credible witnesses of Jesus' resurrection, challenging societal norms. 8:44: ✝ The transformative impact of Christ on individuals and culture throughout history. Recap by Tammy AI

Jesus was TRUTH itself. Of course HE rose from the dead. Truth cannot lie. Those who saw Him testified to this. They saw TRUTH and believed, and left us their account.

Jesus is God. Let us worship him with all our hearts, minds and soul.

Im absolutely so grateful for this channel. You are raising the most significant questions and gathering the most significant minds to answer them. Bravo and bless this ministry. So many people need to hear this truth. You take away excuses and I for one am blessed by it.

The argument that the followers of Jesus wouldn't have made up women as the first eye-witnesses is actually more powerful than most people realize. I've seen modern day Jews and Muslims criticize Christianity because women were the first to witness the Resurrection. In the West we don't realize how untrust-worthy women were in that time and place. If even today Jews and Muslims make this argument, how much more ridiculous would it have been for the Gospel authors to have invented it?

The truth will prevail til the end of time. There is no other figure in history; religious, human, divine or not, that has impacted manking on planet earth like our Lord Jesus Christ has, no one, and no one ever will.

It happened.

Jesus is the way the truth and the light Godbless

I'm not the wisest man but if I do know something, it's this. If a fraudulent faith would try to convince you of anything they wouldn't be throwing the most seemingly absurd facts at you. The fact that Christianity talks about resurrection alone is proof enough for me.

please continue to post these videos , im getting alot of these questions from non believers and genuine christians who were born into christianity but are curious to know these answers, this was so helpful for my own evangelizing mission to bring more souls to christ through the Holy Spirit! thank you for your effort and love for GOD! Jesus Christ of Nazareth. God bless you brother.

I live in Sweden a country where lot’s of people are still registred as belonging to the church of sweden since this was on auto up to the middle of the 90s i think. But maybe 20% are practising christian’s. (and this is a country where everyone went to church and beloved in god 70-100 years ago. I have no friend or family who are but i’m trying to find my way to the faith. It’s not easy, being made fun of if i bring up something vaguely religious. Channels like this help me on my path! ❤️🙏

First time in a long time in RU-vid videos in this genre that I've watched where the subsequent narrative was every bit as good as primary speaker's (NT Wright). Excellent summation.

Excellent breakdown. N.T. Wright is a treasure. He was one of the most crucial figures that God used to fortify my faith during a dark period in my life, seven years ago. I’m forever thankful for his work in defense of the New Testament and the historicity of Jesus’ bodily resurrection. Thanks for the video, Brandon. God bless.

I must confess that method of evangelism is top notch! Keep it up and God bless you abundantly...Amen!

Like many, I came to Christ while hitting a low point in my life over 30 years ago. I had the born-again experience that was overwhelming, so I knew without a doubt that God was real. Like most new Christians, I still had lots of doubts, but all of that went away with a few discoveries that were unveiled to me. The first one I learned sealed the deal. It was the code hidden in Genesis 5. Genesis 5 is a chapter that is usually skipped by most Bible readers. It is a genealogy from Adam to Noah. For those that are not familiar with it, you have to know what the meanings of the Hebrew names are. Each name has a meaning, and the list of names has a hidden message. That hidden message is the Gospel. The reason this is a slam dunk is because the Hebrew scriptures had been translated to Greek a full 300 years before the time of Jesus. You cannot call this a coincidence. You also would have a hard time making the case that Moses colluded to place the Christian Gospel in the first book of the Old Testament. This is what you call the fingerprints of God on the Biblical text. There are many other micro and macro codes within the Biblical text that prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that it is a message from our creator outside the domains of time and space.

Seems like you were getting a little teary eyed there. Happens to me so often thinking about Christ and the suffering He endured for us and love He has for us. Thank you for this channel, seriously. God bless you and your family, Merry (late) Christmas

"Then sing my soul , my Saviour God, to You, how Great You are!"

I have to recommend the new book "Person of Interest" by J. Warner Wallace. Absolutely amazing and compelling book evaluating the fuse, explosion and fallout of Christ throughout history.

My favourite books by NT Wright are The Resurrection of the Son of God, Jesus and the Victory of God, and The New Testament and the People of God. He is such an amazing writer and theologian.

"Faith is an act of confidence, and therefore an act of the heart." - Lacordaire

Thank you Lord 😢the sacrifice of your precious body , blood,soul and divinity for the forgiveness of the sins of your flock.🙏🙏🙏

I love how they established that people living in the 1st Century AD didn't walk around as simpletons. It's the arrogance of modern society to patronise the experiences of these people, assuming that events were understood through a series of fairytales.

I sooo loved this! Great guest, and you are just as great. You always have relevant content and present your POV in a logical, compelling manner! Thanks, from the bottom of my heart, for each and every video!

Thanks for this concise articulation. I came to faith after studying the Bible as a foundation of western civilisation. Two years ago I chose faith in something I couldn't quite believe... and Jesus has come good on the deal. May His Holy Name be praised. Belief in the story came later - and for most of the reasons outlined above, and it was a relief. But my belief is still that the books are fallible... and the way to approach them is not selective blindness, but a discernment of the key messages. If anybody can point me to a concise argument against this I'd be keen to see it.

Right when you repeated His name a few times at around 9:10, I got an out of nowhere text message with 'Jesus' in it. :) I love these kind of moments, does anyone else have those beautiful kind of 'coincidences' that make your neckhair stand up?

Jesus forever changed the time line. Blessed is the Father Jesus.

In the Roman Catholic Church... We have intimate conversations with God called " Mental Prayer ", we not only listen to God but we gaze upon His Face. Or better yet, we let God gaze upon us; we receive and bask in His gaze: We spend quite time basking in Jesus' gaze, aware of the healing, purifying & transforming power of the Holy Face of Jesus :

You're work is great brother! I'm already a believer but I still enjoy these and I think your videos are amazing at raising the most important questions I think most people don't consider when they think Of Christ. Nobody had nothing to gain for lying about Jesus but everything to lose and l lose they did! Who gives their life litterally for something false? No one does!

Not only an excellent and accurate historical understanding, but the ramifications of a bodily resurrection as accounted for in the various testimonies, make for a convincing, irrefutable case for "the risen Christ". Fact. Not fiction. Thanks for your dedicated work in continuing sharing the good news message.

J. Warner Wallace is really great author, I've heard that quote couple of times and it always give me thrills

As someone who studied history at university, it is possibly the silliest thing that Christians do to say “the historical evidence for the resurrection is valid” what we have are four books that disagree with each other on the facts detailing an event that happened at the earliest several decades from when they were written. And to the guy in the video who said that they seem to actually believe it. There are people all over the world who believe all sorts of things to their core, people who have died for beliefs, other than Christianity, it doesn’t make them true. This is wishful thinking.

What always gets me is the fact that his disciples were tortured and brutally murdered for spreading the gospel and that’s not something that you would do for a lie. They had nothing to gain from a worldly standpoint, but lost everything to share Jesus with others.

A little note - it’s not so much a belief changed their character after resurrection as much as Holy Spirit, whom Christ sent to them, just as promised. Thank you Holy Spirit for your guidance and protection, thank you for lifting the weight of this world off our shoulders, thank for revealing to us our true Lord and Savior! ❤

One of the most compelling ideas I’ve heard and its so simple: Christianity wouldn’t exist if Jesus didn’t rise from the dead

I love his argument about the original church being completely aware of what hallucinations were. So often I hear skeptics say, "oh they were just tripping on drugs, both the apostles and the prophets". What that argument doesn't take into account is that both the ancient Israelites and the Apostles were well aware of mind altering substances and knew this was NOT that

Christianity is NO SECULAR history! REAL CHRISTIANITY IS NOW! Paul as I, have experienced the Risen of Christ! And his resurrection! And I Am HE!

This was fantastic! Thanks so much for sharing this message. Praise God!!

God bless your channel!! Its amazing and extremely necessary!

This channel makes good points and plays whole videos instead of snippets to prove a point. Keep dropping 💪🏽

Jesus was raised from the dead. He didn't just get up and walk out himself. He was raised. And although yes, Jesus was raised...really it was me and you who were raised from the dead, by Jesus! We are no longer dead in our sin but raised a new by the grace, mercy and power of Jesus Christ!

Appreciation and blessings from Sydney Australia.

Amen! Thank you for your ministry! :)

Really enjoying your channel. Thanks for all the good content.

Great content. While there is tremendous value in showing the overwhelming evidences of Jesus' life, death, burial and ressurection, just as with every other absolute truth in life there are myriads of people who will not believe regardless of irrefutable evidences. And the bible tells us why. "He (Jesus) went on to say, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has enabled them.” John 6:65. That said, what this channel is doing is good and right. We don't know who the elect are, so we preach Christ to all. Uninformed people think that faith is some superstitious belief void of rationality, when we know that to be an ignorant view. It's odd how that "after" regeneration the rational evidence grows to become absolutely astounding to the believer as the Holy Spirit works in their life. Thumbs up, from a new subscriber.

The most compelling reason to believe that Jesus rose from the dead is that if He didn’t then His entire life, preaching, miracles, suffering etc were all a waste of time. His life’s work only has any meaning if He rose from the dead and we believe that we too will rise from the dead. Otherwise, there is nothing to fear by not following Christ.

Truth so well expressed! This a great example of being prepared to give a reason for one’s hope in Jesus but doing it gently (with civility).

I actually subscribed when the friendly reminder popped up. Great content! Keep it up.

God bless the truth tellers and don't give up! The world needs our voices to unite in amplitude to battle all the nonsense amongst US 🙏✝️💪🫵❤️

Amen brother. Christ is lord. Thank you for your work, god bless you

Thank you for discussion where WT Wright gives what is in my humble thoughts, an 'Apologia' for the resurrection, as this is the unique feature that separates every other world religion from Christianity. This presentation quantifies & qualifies our belief in Yeshuah ha Messiah, when He stated, "If I be lifted up, I will draw all men un to me". a retrospect of one event in Jerusalem, 2000 years ago, The Resurrection, continues to invade the hearts & minds of thousands upon thousands in China India, Iran & many other parts of the ME, because He alone carried the Travellers report. He came back from the Dead and showed Himself to more than 500 people who were then willing to die, be persecuted, lit as human torches, from Paul the Apostle to Ridley & Lattimer in 15 Oct 1555, to millions to date will never deny the Resurrection, because we believe (Emunah - Hebrew for Faith) in the risen Messiah, Period

Brother I am scared of losing my faith in God. What can I do to not lose it?

Amen borhers! It's so encouraging to be reminded of this!

Amen and praise God. That was very encouraging. Appreciate your content 😊

Interesting and informative session, also having some answers to Christian and non Christians skeptics and critics. Another addition to this is the fact they believed in him unto very excruciating death; some crucified, some stoned, maimed etc which is strongly out of human characteristics to diberaberately put themselves in harms way. The death of our Lord Jesus Christ would have discouraged them or make them more mindful but they became stronge, even challenging the the belief and practice of Judaism and also travelling all over the world undermining the risks, likes of Apostle Paul etc Other sects before them or after has fizzled out. The name of Jesus Christ is doing great wonders, miracles and supernatural happenings all over the world since then and still counting per seconds. So many scientific discoveries today are corellating daily discoveries with what was written or spoken by Jesus Christ thousands of years ago in the bible. The listings are endless. To this end, God is not a man he should lie and His ways are not our ways, all we need to do is fulfilling His Will and Purpose for us, , worship him for no man can phantom Him because He is Almighty Father, uncreated and unsearchable. Stay blessed 🙏✌

Excellent video! The circumstantial evidence for a Jesus being Who He said He was is overwhelming

Praise Lord Jesus Christ❤thank you for this.

Powerful.....I love your ending commentary....you really exhalted the GOSPEL!!! 🔥🔥 LOVE IT

He came, he lived, he died, he rose ..... AND HE'S COMING AGAIN!!! HALLELUJAH 🙌 MARANATHA Texas Nana 🤠 Psalm 91 Be sure your SPIRITUAL HOUSE IS IN ORDER ☝️ 💖

I have personally witnessed drug addicts stop their addiction "cold turkey" and then revitalize their mind through Scripture Reading! I could say more. Each of us that have become "born again" by God's spirit can attest to some sort of Spiritual Renewal and the events leading up to this.

As a a famous defence lawyer once said. It doesn't mater if your wife could swim, it just matters if a jury believes she could.

Praise the Lord Jesus Christ.

Thank you for your content! God bless you 🙏🏼🥰

Keep bringing this type of content 👍🏽

That was truly fascinating, that when Paul lists the witnesses, he leaves out the women by name (although they may be included in the “500”), and they were first! I never noticed that before. The entire case presented by the academic was brilliant.. and completely persuasive for anyone interested in Truth.

Wow, your summary at the end was wonderful. I smiled and teared up at the same time. Please go on. God bless

Amen! Thank you brother🙏

I really enjoy your channel and find that your research is top tier from most the other similar channels...I am a Messianic believer and although I am not Hebrew or Jewish attend synagogue on Shabbat and have been attending for almost 1 1/2 years. Our Rabbi's do not call Him Jesus but rather Yeshua (meaning pf this name is Salvation). Perhaps you can address this in one of your follow-on episodes. Yeshua Bless you and your loved ones.

Daily dose of wisdom - you've done good. God bless you and your message

Oh wonderful great counsellor, thank you for stitching the wounds in my heart so that I could be circumcised with hope. Thank you for allowing me, a sinner, to know you. Thank you for making me braver each day to rejoice in you. I was blind but now I see. You are the only God. Our salvation is in you and you alone. Praise Jesus. All glory to God and God alone. Amen 🙏✝

Praise the Lord, now and forever Amen.

This is a fantastic channel, I really enjoy it

Regarding this topic, I have always loved that when Paul was giving his defence and belief in the resurrection before Herod Agrippa II (the grandson of Herod Antipas who was involved in Jesus crucifixion), he said "For the king knoweth of these things, before whom also I speak freely: for I am persuaded that none of these things are hidden from him; for this thing was not done in a corner." (Acts 26:26) Quite literally, Paul was saying to a Roman official in a legally binding capital punishment defense that he expected that the judging party had knowledge regarding the veracity of the resurrection. It just shows that resurrection was incredibly public as "this thing was not done in the corner."

NT Wright is one of my favorites! I have 7 of his books from when I was in both Bible College 7 Baptist Theological Seminary. He even worked with Lee Stroble on 4 of Stroble's books that I have.

The fact that women are named as the first eye witnesses is powerful testimony. Unless it happened, the gospel writers wouldn't have written it.

Thank you and God Bless and Protect you and everyone Forever in Jesus Christ, for He is Alive🙏❤️

AMEN 🙏 WELL SAID BROTHER! JESUS IS ALIVE, I SPOKE TO HIM THIS MORNING 🌄 AND 2 SECONDS AGO! AND HE SPRAKS TO ME ❤

What an amazing Truth. I feel for those who still do not believe in our Lord and Saviour. These incredible facts that have been so beautifully pointed out make so much sense. It gives me the greatest joy knowing my God, through Jesus Christ my Saviour. I wish sceptics would wake up and come into the Light. Thank you once again for a fantastic video.❤

First Century readers also knew literature, metaphor and allegory. For anyone writing in Greek, they had to read Greek, Greek literature and were familiar with literary tropes, which the Gospels are full ... guiding stars, water turned to wine, dead, risen and exalted figures. Greek literature is replete with these. There is a difference between "history" and "literature," but there were also examples of over-lap. Dead and risen figures happen in literature. Not history. The majority of Jews knew to avoid the Gospels altogether. Even the "logos" that appears in the opening of the Gospel of John is not a mere "particle" of speech, but a Greek "philosophical concept" ... And the only way for a Greek philosophical concept to be walking around Nazareth in robe and sandals is through pure fiction. The Gospels were an antidote to two Jewish revolts, and offered Jews a religious means for complete assimilation within the Greco-Roman world. That was its most practical application. Meaning that there was nothing left of Jewish identity, once any Jew became a Christian. The new Christian faith was also connected to trade guilds, which met in homes, and provided a stage-gate to employment. If a Jew identified with the death of Jesus, it allowed his Jewish "identity" to be believed "absorbed" within that death, while identifying with the resurrection allowed a metaphorical identification with "assimilation." You die a Jew and are "reborn" a member of the larger Greco-Roman world. Other ethnic groups adopted Christianity for the same reason. The First Century historical context is "assimilation." Christianity is an imperialist religion created for an imperialist paradigm, with imperialist aims ... unity, assimilation and less ethnic strife. It is imperialist, top-down, patriarchal and out of step with bottom-up democracy. The idea that a religion's goal is to get the entire world to believe in one God is as far removed from democracy's goal as any religion could possibly be. Christianity offers an ancient myth so far out of step with the 21st Century, it is not only losing traction ... it is fading with every passing decade.

God bless you brother 🙏

@6:30 time mark approx. Mr. Wright's frame of reference seems to run strongly to non-Jewish traditions, as also revealed in his public comments antagonistic to Rapture doctrine. Here, wright refers to the women witnessing Resurrection evidence, first at empty tomb, then with Jesus in person, as being "in the half light of an early morning" The start of the Jewish day is after sundown. As a historian, claiming expertise on this subject, this is not a minor "slip".

This channel is food for the soul

In August 1984. I cried out to Jesus Christ, using the word Jesus as I asked Him to take me back and be my friend. I just said " if you will take me back, and be my friend, I will serve you for the rest of my life.". I was changed from struggling to figure out the next day and hour and dollar and everything else like that, in this day to day life. I became obsessed by the Bible, talking about Jesus to everyone I knew, wanted to be in church frequently, and now I am almost 65, and am waiting every day for the Rapture, waiting on God every day. I know that Jesus Christ is alive and well. I have served Him for 39 years, and I know what happened when I was 25. I invite you to take God seriously. Now, today. I was immediately changed into someone focused on Him, which has never changed.

What baffles me is the idea that most people think they are in some way smarter or more skeptical in our age than those of past times. You would need great conviction to do the things the disciples did, and and doing it for something that would sound so absurd to believe, why would you do that if it was a lie? They didn’t gain wealth, they were persecuted by the state for it, they didn’t fight physically to defend their interests or beliefs, they were killed brutally, some boiled in hot oil, all for a lie, that doesn’t glorify them, but another person who died years ago?

Surely one of the best videos ever published out there... thank you, my friend!

Excellent video 👍 Glory be to Jesus, forever and ever!!!

When I share the love of God with a lost person, they accept the free gift of God's love through faith in the blood atonement of Jesus, not as a historian or scientist, but as a person awash in the hopelessness of sin by faith. Paul said, "The life that I now live, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me." Your faith won't cut it. You'll never make it that way---look how many intellectuals are falling away! His faith is absolute.

Thanks you! I really needed this today 🙏

Love it Brandon, bringing the truth as always. Appreciate your work brother.

As a Catholic we don't believe James was a brother of Jesus in the genetic, same parents sense. Rather a close follower. We support this in that the original language the word "brother" could mean either. Also Jesus on the cross told Mary to behold John, her son. Mary went to live with John not James which wouldn't make sense if James was another fruit of her womb.

I come from nothing I’ve been thru almost everything ! Lost so many bestfriends & loved ones but through all that pain I can truly say I believe Jesus/Yahshua died for our sins & Salvation and has risen from the dead 🗣️🙏🏾 there’s evidence of God in bodily form here on earth that’s CRAZYYYYY!!!!!

A great read for anyone who wishes to understand the physical/historical/scientific facts/claims made about Christ is "More Than a Carpenter." A quick read that is more than enough to get (intellectually honest) skeptics very interested and curious to explore more. That is what did it for me. It lead to me reading books by several dyed in the wool Atheists who set out to disprove the claims made in the Bible, only to ultimately becoming born again Christians. That is what kicked the door down for me.

LOVE this one.❤