What happened during the first Easter in Jerusalem cannot be retrieved by the methods of historical inquiry. It is impossible to disprove the resurrection. But neither can the evidence of the Bible compel belief that something so clearly impossible happened. What can certainly be known are some of the stories told about the events of that weekend. These did change history, for better and for worse.
The worst is that the narrative in St John’s Gospel is the foundational document for modern antisemitism. Until that was written, the Jews were nothing special to their neighbours; but in that narrative they are clearly and deliberately responsible for the murder of the son of God – in some perspectives, the greatest crime that could ever be committed. The author of St John’s Gospel is traditionally identified with “the disciple whom Jesus loved”, but he must bear some responsibility for the subsequent persecution of hundreds of thousands of innocent people.
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