Why is Jesus missing from the historical record? Jesus was an influential king (the King of the Jews) and probably the most famous monarch of the last two millennia, so why cannot we find ...

Every one of the canonical Gospels insists on starting its story with the identification of Jesus as divine. It is Matthew, by linking Isaiah with the child conceived through the Holy Spirit, who uses ...

Matthew knew this story was scandalous: Jesus asked John to baptize him! Imagine what John's disciples did with this when they debated with Peter and the gang. (It's incomprehensible that the two ...