Knowing the Historical Jesus

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Who was he? What can we know about his personality? Did he have siblings? Was he married? What real relationship did he have with Mary Magdalene? Did he want to found a religion? How much of his story is myth? and How much of it was real? What is the reason why the figure of Jesus has endured so much in time? Let´s find out

Jesus of Nazareth is probably the personage who has had the greatest relevance and impact on history, but what we can really know about him as a historical figure is far from what we have generally been told up to now

We analyse with one of the world's leading experts, Professor Don Antonio Piñero, the life and thought of this historical figure, beyond interpretations, myths and legends

Myths and legends

We have to be aware that it is impossible to get to the real Jesus

That is why a distinction must be made between the flesh and blood character who lived in all his dimensions

The historical Jesus, which is nothing more than an approach to the former through historical science, and the theological, which is interpreted through religion

The historical Jesus that we are going to approach in this documentary is a hypothetical reconstruction of the character through written sources such as the Gospels, The rest of the New Testament or historians references As it is a critical and scientific analysis of these sources, this documentary in no way attempts to undermine or question the Christian faith

In order to begin with the approach to the historical Jesus and to be able to resolve the doubts that arise, Antonio Piñero, who has dedicated a lifetime to the investigation of Jesus, proposes some formulas to verify the historicity of the facts and sayings of Jesus

The most notable is the difficulty criterion according to which more credibility is given to facts or sayings that would hardly have been made up because of the problems they could have caused

for their inventors

To me the figure of Jesus of Nazareth as a lay historian but very respectful of the beliefs of people who are genuinely sensible and not super fanatical seems to me to be sufficiently impressive to be able to dedicate a whole life to them and if you ask me what is within that whole life of studies on the character what strikes you most, I would say it is the integrity, the very clear purpose that he has and how he is absolutely consistent with all his ideas in a truly amazing way He preached some ideas that had an impact on the history of mankind at that time, for example, love for one's enemies, But love for one's enemies or the preaching of a God who loves are truly unusual for the Greco-Roman world of that time, which makes this Jesus an attractive character

Did Jesus exist? There are strong arguments for scientifically substantiating the existence of Jesus

There are two mainly Anyone who has studied the Gospels will see that they are impossible to falsify as they are, it is only possible to understand them if one assumes, as 99% of the research does, that beneath them there is a real figure whose human traits they try to magnify, exalt and divinise

Each evangelist does it as he can or feels he can, following his own rules, so that the real result is full of errors and contradictions that lead us away from the historical Jesus

On the whole, the New Testament is the best and closest source for approaching the historical figure of Jesus, despite its literary and sometimes legendary nature

It must be confessed that no modern biography We would love to reply

Lots of questions About the real Jesus Was he tall? Was he short? Fat? Thin? blond? What color were the eyes? What did he like to eat? Does he get angry with his friends? and

did he have many friends? How did he treat his sisters? What dress did he like? None of that absolutely none of what the real real Jesus is there are many biographies of famous men for example Famous rock stars None of that I'd say It is transmitted by the evangelists And therefore we We stayed Without knowing it And all subsequent generations Can you imagine Jesus can imagine Jesus in any way they like

because there is no way to find a hard fact about Jesus

And about none of his disciples To get to the true Jesus The first thing is to identify the sources that can give us relevant data about the character The main references in history are the four canonical gospels Namely Accepted by the Church But especially that of Marcos First And the one that almost certainly served as the basis for that of Mateo and Lucas But it should be known that the evangelists not only faithfully wrote But they also altered and reworked on the teachings and deeds of Jesus We can also get some information from some later apocryphal gospel Like the one in the Gnostic Gospel of Thomas And from some historical references Authors external to Christianity such as that of Flavio Josephus in the year 93 And that of the unspoken Roman historian towards 110 confirming the crucifixion Of Jesus The times of Pontius Pilate The events that we are going to relate begin in the year 6 BC Surely in Nazareth With the birth of Jesus Until the year 28 approximately the lost years take place Of which little is known Around the year 29 he began his public life and death on the cross, not long after, perhaps April 30

After the crucifixion and for the next 40 years An oral tradition is emerging among the first Christians about Jesus His disciples and followers narrated the sayings and deeds of the character in different regions near Jerusalem The gospels are formed on the basis of this oral tradition that did not indicate the geographical time frame of what Jesus did or said

So its reconstruction is especially complicated In these years he begins to see some written sources of which we have no physical evidence

as the source Q What was collected around the year 50 sayings of Jesus especially in Galilee Naturally if we have testimonies from the first written sources Preserved only in copies of copies through the centuries Namely The four gospels already mentioned that go from the year 70 to the 100 Later between the years 90 and 110 Mentions of Jesus of Nazareth appear in the stories of historians such as Flavio Josefo tacit Finally and although the canon or list of sacred works of Christianity was already formed Numerous apocryphal gospels follow one another These are late works that add practically nothing about the life of Jesus In any case, they confirm aspects of this that we already knew thanks to the canonical gospels

Understanding this evolution of the sources after the death of Jesus Both oral and written And how events unfold We can understand the great difficulty And get closer to the historical character Separating the reality from the fantasy Driven by the desire to praise and magnify the character Until reaching its divinization What do we know about Jesus? Jesus was born in the time of Herod the Great As stated by two of the canonical gospels So his birth must have been before 4 BC Date this king died According to the historian's writings Flavius Josephus

At this date We must add 1 or 2 more years in which Jesus lived in Bethlehem Before the massacre of the innocents Therefore according to these data Jesus was born in the year 5 or 6 BC It is clear then that our way of counting the years is wrong This error was the result of a mistake made by a monk named Dionysius the Exiguous, who was charged with the task of establishing a common system for both East and West of reckoning time so that all of Christendom would celebrate Easter on the same day

He was probably born in Nazareth As stated by the evangelists When they call him Jesus of Nazareth He probably had four brothers and two sisters Santiago Josephus, Judas and Simon They were the names of the men Jesus Surely a carpenter or builder We have no reason to doubt these claims of the Gospels

He had charismatic gifts as a healer and exorcist He was a disciple of the Baptist And it had the same theological framework Although he formed his own group And he was also a seditious for the empire Which crucified him as a rebel and dies around the year 30 in Jerusalem Another interesting aspect of the Jesus human personality it is usually self-confident sometime with anguish

We have the scene of the Garden of Gethsemane Especially in the Gospel of Luke When Jesus who senses that somehow the Romans and the leaders of the Jews are on his heels and are after him, He chooses 3 disciples named Peter, A3 beloved disciples Peter James and John He withdraws from others and withdraws from them in turn and devotes himself to prayer

According to the Gospel of Luke he has a deathly sweat, that is, that somehow this has been medically explained here and somehow sweats a liquid that looks like drops of blood and occurs in cases of extreme distress

Other Manuscripts however do not have that phrase In any case, although not all the manuscripts bear witness to the sweat of blood, Jesus is extremely anguished and so anguished that he asks God, and this is in the prayer, if it is possible to avert the horrible death that is about to befall him

Another case of Jesus' anguish Is the mention So clear of that despair, that anguish he has at the moment of of dying when he cries out: "Eloy, Eloy, my God, my God, my God, My gosh my gosh Why why have you forsaken me? his physical strength collapses

However The Gospel of John is so aware That the other evangelists had painted a Jesus who was too human and too weak that all these scenes are either suppressed or totally corrected

In John's Gospel this correction or deletion confirms that this may have been a trait of Jesus

The Ultimate Evangelist named John introduces us to a Jesus who accepts death and in such a sovereign way A man who faces Pilate who faces To King Herod Antipas in such a sovereign way that when they go to arrest him and they say we are looking for Jesus the Nazarene and he says: It's me! The irradiation of his answers is so tremendous that, according to John's gospel, all those who are about to set him on fire fall to the ground in terror

That is an image that I think is radically idealised and probably purely sublimated and does not go with the anguish of Jesus

On the message of Jesus Although it is evident that Jesus' preaching is within the theological, sociological and philosophical outlines of Judaism, Jesus with his religious genius emphasised already known aspects of Jewish theology

Doing the novelty The core of his message was the immediate coming of the Kingdom of God following the proclamation of his teacher John the Baptist, With the demand for an even more radical life change To enter in it

For Jesus the kingdom of God was a future entity had not yet come Although some proclaim that the kingdom according to Jesus was already present in the heart of man as a result of his coming God's kingdom It will not be merely spiritual but will take place first on earth his symbol is a great banquet Establishing a justice only then will it have its fullness in heaven Jesus' concept of ritual purity without rejecting it was not fixed on the exterior the interior of man, from where the acts and sins that make man truly impure originate

Jesus exalted the goodness of God as Father and the divine sonship of the human being He insisted on a radicalisation of the law of Moses, demanding a firmer and more essential fulfilment of it, he pushed the idea of love of enemies to the extreme, proclaiming a broader concept of neighbour

The imitation of God in his aspect of love for others will be that which can save the human being in the judgment

Undoubtedly Jesus drew the people Because he was a healer and an exorcist, there is no doubt I mean drag the crowds Now you couldn't drag the crowds in Israel Only with that But with the great gift of the word Throughout the entire Gospel there are continuous testimonies That we believe are not false In which people admired themselves of the ease with which Jesus explained the scriptures to the people

What's more Today, in the 21st century, Jews agree that the parables of Jesus are probably The pearl of 1st century Jewish literature It is true that the Pharisees of the time used the genre to fly a comparison A resemblance A metaphor to explain something With a few words that were poetic or with a simple story that could be understood somehow But the parables of Jesus So full of grace so timely So precise That I believe that from the collection of parables Of other rabbis, those of Jesus are the best So we can say Jesus was a famous rabbi who attracted people by his preaching healing and exorcism By exorcism What's more The proof that he was a rabbi is in that discussion With those we believe were his fellow Pharisees With the people explaining the scriptures Just someone That he had a certainty in himself because the Gospel says that he never Had frequented Jesus A school Of Pharisees or a school of Masters of the law or the scribe Rather, it was simply his personal law study

The one that had made him so famous before the people therefore we can qualify Jesus of illustrious rabbi But one thing is not the rulings of Jesus on the law collected in the Mishnah, i

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that selection of rabbinical Namely rulings on the law of Moses that is condensed into a book around 220 but not for lack of value

of Jesus' rulings as a rabbi, but because there was already a big fight going on at that time

Between Judaism and Christianity we are already in the third century But if not, the sentences of Jesus probably would have passed

On the other hand we can say That this Rabbinate of Jesus does not have apart from the beautiful literature and the good explanation does not have absolutely essential ideas

There is no explanation of the law of Jesus as rabbi That is not found somehow In other rabbinical parallels Registered in the various books in use Namely We have to confess that even though he is an illustrious rabbi And what I know Maybe ahead of his time At the same time he did not go outside the normal channels of the radius In short, as we have been seeing The evolution of the sources to know Jesus throughout the years after his death is the key to understanding the difficulty to give a real image of him and not that of a deified character

Historical and social political context The works of the New Testament respond to an ideology and a specific historical situation One of the issues it addresses is the political, economic, social and cultural context of Judaism Explain why Jesus' message was relatively well received in Israel A chosen people What was to enter the kingdom of God But in that kingdom there was no place for either Pontius Pilate or Tiberius at the head of the Roman Empire

And other Jews from the economic elite who took advantage of the foreign presence Therefore Jesus was sentenced to death as an enemy of the ruling Rome as seditious against imperial law and its system of government

Is the New Testament the foundation of Christianity? Jesus was therefore not the founder of Christianity but its foundation and starting point, since his doctrine is clearly framed within the conceptual and theological framework of Judaism

Since the end of the 19th century, We know perfectly that Jesus is not a Christian, why? Simply because he never intended to found any religion Jesus remained absolutely faithful to Judaism And how do we know this? Reading the gospels quietly The God of Jesus is the God of Israel Jesus never considered himself A child of god Physical Real Which is essential For later Christianity Jesus observed the Jewish holidays Jesus Kept meals from food Pure Food That is Jesus Strictly preached hey you eat whatever food you want The discussion in chapter 7 of Mark It is perfectly understandable when it is said that Jesus purified all foods not as an authentic Jesus saying from history but as a commentary Commentary of the evangelist Therefore in general lines if Jesus lives like a jew Has the religion of a Jew The God of a Jew didn't break Jewish law Preached like the other rabbis He probably belongs to a certain branch of Pharisaism A branch Galilee From a slightly special Pharisaism different from Jerusalem If he never intended to found a religion he did died for having proclaimed himself the king of Israel In the end he tried to establish a kingdom of God which is totally Jewish, We have to say That jesus did not found Christianity And therefore Jesus never was a christian Birth education and family It is not known for sure if Jesus was born in Nazareth since in the New Testament he is only referred to as Jesus of Nazareth

Twice Nor can we know for sure the date of his birth But it is very likely that he was born before the death of Herod the Great Around 6-5 BC But nothing is known of the day We don't really know historically whether he was born in Bethlehem Or in Nazareth Because the sources to know are the Gospels And it turns out that they are Not the gospels which are 83 Today not accepted by the Church but the canonical gospels, i

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Now Matthew and Luke are clearly in favour of the fact that he was born in Bethlehem, and Mark and John, although they do not say anything directly, do say indirectly how a Messiah can come from Galilee, i

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not born in Bethlehem but in Nazareth

Or for example Mark calls Nazareth the homeland, What calls you i

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the place where Jesus of Nazareth was born, so in theory we can't know

Nor is it historically possible to maintain that Jesus was born of a virgin mother

This claim is a matter of faith alone, and it is important to note that there are references to other earlier traditions where prominent figures in history were born of virgins or had a God as their father who had mysteriously begotten them, such as Plato, Democritus Alexander the Great or Augustus himself

It can only be said with certainty that his parents' names were Mary and Joseph

Finally regarding his life it is not possible to know for sure whether Jesus was single, married or widowed

It is very possible that his wife, if he had one was not with him during his public life Among his companions were women And judging by the gospel of John Mary Magdalene occupied a special place among them

The only mention Of Mary Magdalene and not only her but with two more women In the Ministry Or public life of Jesus Appears in Chapter 8 The Gospel of Luke at the beginning And it says the following And there were many Many women from Galilee who followed Jesus and served him with their own money, with their own money, with their own money, including Mary Magdalene

From which he had cast 7 demons A certain Salomé And another named Joan who was the wife of an administrator Herod Antipas and that's what it all comes down to Absolutely everything Naturally After Mary Magdalene With those women What precisely are the only faithful while the men flee and escape as soon as Jesus is caught, Women risking their lives stay Faithfully by his side And there appear next to him Mary Magdalene The mother of Jesus According to the Gospel of Mark Maria Magdalena is a few meters away quite far And that's very plausible because the Romans wouldn't let anyone near the cross of a seditious man

According to the Gospel of John in an unlikely way it presents the mother of Jesus To Mary Magdalene and the beloved disciple at the foot of the cross No independent historian admits the historicity of this scene But what I want to affirm is What about Mary Magdalene and her relationship with Jesus while he was active We only have one news Then a historian Serene and calm is impossible for him to deduce a very special relationship of Mary Magdalene With this woman because the whole tone of Jesus' life in his public life is that of an absolutely compact group, where nothing but women servants went, i

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they were supposed to wash their clothes, they were supposed to prepare their meals, they were supposed to flee from the police, they were supposed to escape to pagan lands, and the gospels indicate especially that those who were married like Peter had left their wives, So it gives the impression that none of the Apostles and the leader went with his own wife in this eventful life running from town to town escaping from the Police and so on, and from Herod Antipas and that was no life at all except for a few probably young women volunteers who helped this group of preachers in their eventful life

Throughout this documentary We have been able to answer the questions that we asked ourselves at the beginning We can understand the difficulty of historians to approach the character of Jesus Since the evolution of sources Both oral and written How to translate the original texts The influence of Christianity that just imitated the character However, for the historian Antonio Piñero the figure of Jesus it is awesome enough to dedicate a whole life of study Both in itself and in the impact that it has caused over time in different generations Beyond myths and truths For Professor Piñero, the integrity of Jesus is in any case very remarkable

his clear prophetic awareness The clear end he had The consequence with which he led his life ideas to the end And how he dragged the crowds preaching simply and directly to his new ideas That have generated a huge impact In the history of mankind Until today The documentary that you are going to see next It is part of an online course on the historical Jesus taught by one of the world's leading experts on Jesus Professor Antonio Piñero

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