| › Preface - This study is in some ways so unusual and provocative that the writer thinks it desirable to state here very briefly how the book came to take its pre ...read |
| › 1. The Book that Refused to be Written - I suppose that most writers will confess to having hidden away somewhere in the secret recesses of their most private drawer the first rough draft of ...read |
| › 2. The Real Case Against the Prisoner - In attempting to unravel the tangled skein of passions, prejudices, and political intrigues with which the last days of Jesus are interwoven, it has a ...read |
| › 3. What Happened Before Midnight on Thursday - I suggested on an earlier page that considerations of time played a peculiar and decisive part in determining the events that immediately preceded the ...read |
| › 4. A Psychological Parallelogram of Forces - If anyone thinks that in approaching the trial of Jesus of Nazareth by Pontius Pilate he is approaching the simple and the obvious he is making a big ...read |
| › 5. The Situation on Friday Afternoon - If we are to gain a teal insight into the events immediately following the death of Christ we shall have to begin by studying carefully the situation ...read |
| › 6. Thirty-Six Hours Later - By all the ordinary standards of human reasoning, the mystery attaching to the person of Christ ought to have terminated with His death and burial. Th ...read |
| › 7. On the Behavior of Two Sisters and the Men Who Fled in the Night - Before we can consider what these facts mean, and especially what validity attaches to the various explanations that have been brought forward to acco ...read |
| › 8. Between Sunset and Dawn - It is strange that there is no escaping the clock in all this baffling story of the closing phase of the life of Jesus.
We saw in an earlier chapte ...read |
| › 9. The Historic Crux of the Problem - Whoever comes to this problem has sooner or later to confront a fact that cannot be explained away or removed by any logical processes whatever. It lo ...read |
| › 10. The Evidence of the Principal Fisherman - There are three men in particular whose testimony concerning this matter, if it could be obtained, would be absolutely final and conclusive. The first ...read |
| › 11. The Evidence of the Prisoner's Brother - With one single exception, which I shall deal with later, there is nothing in the whole of this strange story that impresses me so profoundly as the p ...read |
| › 12. The Evidence of the Man from Tarsus - It is almost impossible to imagine anything more fortunate from a purely historical point of view than the fact that, just at the moment when Christia ...read |
| › 13. The Witness of the Great Stone - I suppose that no one can read through the earliest account of the Resurrection as it is given in the Gospel of Mark without being arrested by the ext ...read |
| › 14. Some Realities of that Far-Off Morning - What is the secret of this silent and impenetrable tomb? It is a question that presses insistently for an answer, and I propose to discuss it in the p ...read |
| › 15. The Servant of the Priest - Who was the young man who, if this interpretation be the true one, anticipated the women and shared with them the earliest experiences of that memorab ...read |
