Kyle Davison Bair
1 min readMar 4, 2024

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Hello Shena-Ta Tsai, thanks for responding.

You said:

"The people who recorded this were Jesus’ enemies." How do you know it was Jesus' enemies rather than scribes decades or centuries removed who heard the stories and recorded them down?

It's not a hard case to make, my friend.

The account is not favorable to Jesus. It describes Him as someone accused, condemned, and executed. There is nothing commendable about the account.

That's not how you write about someone you admire. That's how you write about someone you view as an enemy -- a criminal.

You said:

Do you actually have any evidence for the first century dating of that account?

The account itself is evidence of its early recording.

Every detail in the account corroborates the Gospels. We would only expect such exactitude if they were recorded around the same time.

I'm aware of your second response, that challenges the notion that all the details agree. I'll respond to that next, to show how easy the case is to make that they do, in fact, perfectly cohere.

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Kyle Davison Bair
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