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“The problem, then, with the idea of Jesus as a nationalistic, Jewish revolutionary is that it’s way too small a picture: his revolution was far greater than that, and the rebellion he began was aimed at a far, far greater power.”
― Nick Page, The Longest Week: The truth about Jesus' last days

“not everyone who speaks in the spirit is a prophet, but only if he exhibits the Lord’s ways … if any prophet teaches the truth, yet does not practise what he teaches, he is a false prophet’.”
― Nick Page, A Nearly Infallible History of Christianity

“Evil flees where no man pursueth.”
― Nick Pratchitt in Another Day Another Dungeon page 121

“It matters, this stuff, you see. Because, if you don’t know the true history, you are at the mercy of other people’s inventions. If we don’t – both Christians and non-Christians alike – make an attempt to understand the culture of the times, to find out what really happened, then other people will make it up. And they’ll use this story in a thousand different ways to claim a thousand different things. They’ll get Jesus to say things he couldn’t possibly have said, to obtain things he never would have wanted. They’ll take the story and use it to screw money out of TV viewers, to justify positions of power, to peddle theories about the end of the world. They’ll distort it to justify racism and bigotry. And they’ll use this story – the greatest story of non-violent love in history – to justify acts of violence on a scale that has never been seen.”
― Nick Page, The Longest Week: The truth about Jesus' last days

“Then, in the early spring of AD 33, he did something that changed things entirely, something really annoying: he raised a man from the dead.”
― Nick Page, The Longest Week: The truth about Jesus' last days

“Thus, by the end of AD 32, Jesus’ teaching, his miracles, his emphasis on the poor, the marginalised and the unclean and his almost total disrespect for religious leaders had resulted in distrust and even animosity. But although various groups had been moved to violence against him, there was no intentional coherent strategy to remove him. He was not seen as that much of a danger. Then, in the early spring of AD 33, he did something that changed things entirely, something really annoying: he raised a man from the dead.”
― Nick Page, The Longest Week: The truth about Jesus' last days

“Throughout history, men have made many things to contain God: churches, temples, denominations, ceremonies. All of these have mixed motives and chequered histories. God doesn’t ‘need’ any of these things, but it is in humanity’s nature to keep building houses, and it is in God’s nature to keep turning up.”
― Nick Page, The Badly Behaved Bible: Thinking again about the story of Scripture