I have explained why it is almost certain that Luke did not himself write the passage describing Jesus “sweating blood” in Luke 22:43-44; the passage is not found in some of our oldest and best manuscripts, it intrudes in a context that otherwise is structured as a clear chiasmus, and it presents a view of Jesus going to his death precisely at odds with what Luke has produced otherwise. Whereas Luke goes out of his way to portray Jesus as calm and in control in the ace of death – evidently to provide a model to his readers about how they too suffer when they experience persecution – these verses show him in deep anguish to the point of needing heavenly support by an angel, as he sweats great drops as of blood. But if the verses were not originally in Luke, why were they added by scribes? Read by Petra Ortiz
Bart presents an excerpt from the introduction to his book "Peter, Paul, and Mary Magdalene." Read by John Paul Middlesworth.
Drawing from his book on the topic, David Litwa introduces a notorious but misrepresented figure from the first Christian century. Read by John Paul...
Dr. Ehrman emphasizes how the spirit-as-breath was important to Paul's view of the resurrection and how the period before the end of time came...