"The sinners would have included those who did not pay their tithes (one tenth of their income) to the priests, and th…"

"The sinners … did not even have the consolation of feeling they were in God’s good books. The educated people told th…"

"The sinners … had been taught to think of sin as the failure of observe laws of which they were usually quite ignoran…"

"The remarkable thing about Jesus was that, although he came from the middle class and had no appreciable disadvantage…"

"Miracles are very often thought of, both by those who believe in them and by those who do not, as events, or purporte…"

"Rejoicing and celebrating with sinners was incomprehensibly scandalous (Luke 15:1). They [the Pharisees] could only a…"

"There can be no doubt that Jesus was a remarkably cheerful person and that his joy, like his faith and hope, was infe…"

"The Christian belief in heaven originated after the death of Jesus with the idea that he had been taken up into heave…"

"Many Christians have been misled for centuries about the nature of God’s kingdom by the well-known mistranslation of …"

"The kingdom of God, like any other kingdom, cannot be within a man; it is something within which a man can live."