Quotes from Killing Jesus: A History

Bill O'Reilly ·  293 pages

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“truly believe this child to be the new king. A furious Herod summons his religious advisers. As a secular”
― Bill O'Reilly, quote from Killing Jesus: A History


“This child is destined to cause the falling and rising of many in Israel, and to be a sign that will be spoken against, so that the thoughts of many hearts will be revealed. And a sword will pierce your own soul, too.”
― Bill O'Reilly, quote from Killing Jesus: A History


“Such is life in the Roman Empire, which has begun its slow decline into ruin. There is little justice or nobility among”
― Bill O'Reilly, quote from Killing Jesus: A History


“and building his own home into the slope of a Nazarene hill. But the young Jesus is not long for this small town. The holiness and magnificence of Jerusalem call to him. He comes to know the smells and music of the city during his”
― Bill O'Reilly, quote from Killing Jesus: A History


“To understand what Jesus accomplished and how he paid with his life, we have to understand what was happening around him. His was a time when Rome dominated the Western world and brooked no dissent. Human life was worth little. Life expectancy was less than forty years, and far less if you happened to anger the Roman powers that were. An excellent description of the time was written—perhaps with some bombast—by journalist Vermont Royster in 1949: There was oppression—for those who were not the friends of Tiberius Caesar … what was man for but to serve Caesar? There was persecution of men who dared think differently, who heard strange voices or read strange manuscripts. There was enslavement of men whose tribes came not from Rome, disdain for those who did not have the familiar visage. And most of all, there was contempt for human life. What, to the strong, was one man more or less in a crowded world? Then, of a sudden, there was a light in the world, and a man from Galilee saying, Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and unto God the things that are God’s. And the voice from Galilee, which would defy Caesar, offered a new kingdom in which each man could walk upright and bow to none but his God … so the light came into the world and the men who lived in darkness were afraid, and they tried to lower a curtain so that man would still believe that salvation lay with the leaders. But it came to pass for a while in diverse places that the truth did set men free, although the men of darkness were offended and they tried to put out the light.”
― Bill O'Reilly, quote from Killing Jesus: A History



“He had compared the taxation to a form of slavery and had encouraged his fellow Jews to rise up against their oppressors.”
― Bill O'Reilly, quote from Killing Jesus: A History


“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.”
― Bill O'Reilly, quote from Killing Jesus: A History


“You are the Christ, the son of the living God.”
― Bill O'Reilly, quote from Killing Jesus: A History


“black, and become infested with maggots—thus the inability to sit astride,”
― Bill O'Reilly, quote from Killing Jesus: A History


“In that moment of revealing, one historian will write of Cleopatra, “her desire grew greater than it had been before.”
― Bill O'Reilly, quote from Killing Jesus: A History



“And so it is that Simon—whom Jesus renames Peter, meaning “rock”—becomes Jesus’s first disciple.”
― Bill O'Reilly, quote from Killing Jesus: A History


“The wrists will then also be shackled”
― Bill O'Reilly, quote from Killing Jesus: A History


“The Nazarene tells a parable about a wealthy landowner and his troublesome tenants. The summation is a line stating that the religious leaders will lose their authority and be replaced by others whose belief is more genuine.”
― Bill O'Reilly, quote from Killing Jesus: A History


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Bill O'Reilly
Born place: in Manhasset, New York, The United States
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