How The Killing of Jesus Taken Place

This book is not a religious book as said by the authors, Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard, but a history. Thus, despite they are both Roman Catholics who were educated in religious schools, they wrote this book more from the historical point of view than Christianity faith. They refrain of mixing the story with divine things despite a lot of stories and words are taken from the Bible.

In this book, the authors do not address Jesus as Messiah, but as a man who was preaching about peace and love, His standpoint as opposition of the religious leaders for which had made Him as the most wanted enemy of Sanhedrin, and, how the plot to kill Him was planned.

The story about Jesus (and killing Jesus) of course will not be completed without looking at the Roman empire domination in the land of Israel prior to Jesus birth, as we can see in this book how the emperor governed the defeated land; from Julius Caesar until Caesar Augustus under whom baby Jesus born, then Emperor Tiberius who ruled the Roman when Jesus was killed.

Not only were the Roman emperors, but several important figures surrounding the killing of Jesus also being told such as Pontius Pilate, Herod Antipas as well as Caiaphas.

The Roman rule with the crucifixion –as the most brutal and terrifying punishment in the world history—was imposed to Jesus as written so detail by the authors. This part will make us take a deep breath.

The authors who are also historical investigators are supported by a lot of references as well as facts to build the story systematically and chronologically which make the book is worth to read.

The last chapter of the book tells about Jesus’s tomb, the third day since Jesus’s death when Mary Magdalene visited the tomb. As Mary approached the tomb, she was stunned. She stepped forward, looked inside and smelled the myrrh and aloe. She saw the linen shroud but found nothing. “To this day, the body of Jesus of Nazareth has never been found,” the authors close the story.

This book indeed a history, not a religious book.

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Serpong, 19 Aug 2023

Titus J.

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