{"content":[{"text":"How can you be sure Jesus was really executed when there were nothing but frauds dealing with him?","bbox":{"left":0.0,"top":0.005115,"width":0.8226310000000001,"height":0.015784}},{"text":"It gets more suspicious when you read that Pilate was kind enough to try and save Jesus at the risk of his own job and life. \n And Matthew says that the centurion and his men acclaimed Jesus as the Son of God when they saw the earthquake that \n coincided with his death (27). An earthquake alone could not convert them so they must have been believers before they \n nailed Jesus and the quake increased their faith.","bbox":{"left":0.0,"top":0.035403,"width":0.9832460000000001,"height":0.063889}},{"text":"Why did the centurion say Jesus was the Son of God using the past tense meaning Jesus was dead just because he thought \n he saw him breathing no more? Obviously there was not much of an effort made to make sure Jesus was dead. It was \n known that pulses were not taken for nobody knew how reliable they were for you could think you felt no pulse for a \n person who was really alive.","bbox":{"left":0.0,"top":0.113795,"width":0.980987,"height":0.06388899999999999}},{"text":"Jesus prayed for the Romans saying, “Father forgive them for they know not what they do”. Or so Luke says. Some \n scholars say he meant the Jews and the Romans but the gospels are clear the Jews knew fine well what they were doing and \n as Jesus was on the cross naturally it would have to refer to those who hammered the nails in. There would be no point in \n Jesus praying for people who never repent. The Son of God who is perfect would only pray when he can be answered or for \n people there is hope for, for he always does what is best. Jesus said at the tomb of Lazarus that his father in Heaven always \n hears him. So Jesus is prophesying the conversion of the men who nailed him. He uses the present tense too when he could \n have said, “Father, I ask that you will forgive them for they know not what they do”. He wants them pardoned now \n indicating that though they did not know they were doing wrong they were good men. They may have believed in Jesus but \n believed that it was Jesus’ will that they crucify him. Jesus said that only true believers could be forgiven so he is saying \n they are true believers. For Jesus to pray forgiveness on men for crucifying him while he arranged for himself to be \n captured and crucified is hypocrisy at its worst.","bbox":{"left":0.0,"top":0.192188,"width":0.99726,"height":0.176131}},{"text":"Pilate knew that Jesus should have lasted longer on the cross and was astonished that he died so fast (Mark 15:44). It was a \n centurion who was probably the one who had come to support Jesus who told Pilate that he was dead (Mark 15:45). This is \n important for he would have been keen to get Jesus off the cross before he really died if he was comatose. There is no proof \n that the spear in the side would have dispatched Jesus if he was still alive after being certified dead and the water emerging \n from the wound perhaps indicates that Jesus was not stabbed in any vital organs but in the large intestine which was \n holding the water and the blood came from the wound.","bbox":{"left":0.0,"top":0.382823,"width":0.996286,"height":0.09595799999999999}},{"text":"The events surrounding Jesus’ passion and death coincided with his superstitious misreading of the Old Testament texts \n which he surmised were about him. This points to some collaboration between Jesus or his friends and the soldiers so it is \n reasonable to suppose that they would have helped him to live.","bbox":{"left":0.0,"top":0.493285,"width":0.980645,"height":0.04785400000000006}},{"text":"The gospels say that Jesus got away with attracting large crowds, claiming to be the Son of God and superior to the state \n and to be the Messiah for about three years while Rome was merciless with anybody who could be a rival. I don’t believe \n that he did but if he did then it shows he had the Romans in his back pocket and could have gotten away with anything and \n used them to fake his death. The death had to be faked for Pilate was behaving illegally by letting him go about which \n shows that Pilate would have stooped to any level to save him.","bbox":{"left":0.0,"top":0.555643,"width":0.9894080000000001,"height":0.07992300000000008}},{"text":"Jesus asks for wine in John and seems dead afterwards. It could have been laced with opium which was readily obtainable \n in his country (page 183, Jesus Lived in India) and it would have induced him into a coma that made him look dead. If the \n soldiers wanted to save him they had to help him play dead and time was running out for he had to be dead before the \n Sabbath for they did not want to break his legs to hasten death. Jesus who reportedly went out of his way to suffer might \n not have refused the wine he was offered before he was crucified if it was like smelling salts and would make him suffer \n more by making him more alert. The Romans would have forced it on him for they were cruel and did not have it around \n for nothing unless they wanted to save him. It was no ordinary wine for it was offered for a reason and not out of \n friendship. He refused it and was allowed to for it was too early to knock himself out. It is important that two others were \n crucified with Jesus it is not said that they were offered the wine.","bbox":{"left":0.0,"top":0.65007,"width":0.98435,"height":0.14406200000000002}},{"text":"The problem with the opium is that Jesus was in very bad shape physically and for it to make his body seem dead would \n mean he would slip into a coma from which he would have been very unlikely to recover (page 70, The Jesus Inquest). \n Perhaps he didn't recover but the believers thought he would and only pretended they buried him while they had taken him \n to a safe place to pretend they had revived him. Perhaps if he died they thought it was necessary to prevent shame by \n getting somebody to pretend to be the resurrected Jesus. Perhaps between some seeing this \"Jesus\" and the desperate need \n to believe some actually hallucinated other appearances of Jesus. But there is a chance that Jesus could have come out of \n the coma.","bbox":{"left":0.0,"top":0.808636,"width":0.9879549999999999,"height":0.11199199999999998}},{"text":"Another possibility is that Jesus was knocked out by a dose of mandrake. Mandrake was used as an anaesthetic and was put \n in vinegar as we know from a doctor’s journal of the time. Jesus drank vinegar before he “died”.","bbox":{"left":0.0,"top":0.935132,"width":0.995486,"height":0.03181900000000004}},{"text":"http://www.forteantimes.com/articles/146%20mandrake.schtml gives us the research of Gloria Moss that there would be","bbox":{"left":0.0,"top":0.981455,"width":0.9695849999999999,"height":0.01578400000000002}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}