History

Roman and Jewish historians who had no reason to help the Christians, and wrote it down anyway.

Outside the Bible A Jewish historian recorded that Jesus was seen alive on the third day. His enemies admitted the tomb was empty. What records outside the Bible say happened after the cross, including what Jesus' own enemies admitted. Read it → Around 701 BC The Assyrian king who besieged Jerusalem left his own record. It matches the Bible, and he never says he took the city. The enemy king's own record of the siege of Jerusalem, carved in clay, agrees with the Bible down to what it leaves out. Read it → Outside the Bible The Jewish historian Josephus wrote about John the Baptist. His account matches the Gospels. A Jewish historian, writing for Romans, records the life and death of John the Baptist just as the Gospels tell it. Read it → Outside the Bible The apostles were beaten, jailed and killed for saying Jesus rose. Not one of them took it back. The men who said they saw Jesus risen were offered their lives to deny it. One after another, they refused. Read it → Outside the Bible The sky went dark for three hours when Jesus died. Pagan historians wrote it down. Three hours of darkness at noon, at full moon, recorded by the Gospels and by pagan historians. Read it → AD 64 Thirty years after the crucifixion, Rome was already full of Christians. Nero burned them as torches. A hostile Roman historian records an immense multitude of Christians in Rome, just three decades after the cross. Read it → Outside the Bible Jesus is in the Roman history books. Tacitus records his execution under Pontius Pilate. A Roman historian, a Jewish historian and a Roman governor all wrote about Jesus within a century of the cross. Read it →
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