Paul Johnson

“Jesus wanted to avoid at all costs being known as a miracle worker. He detested being thought of as a kind of holy magician, but sometimes publicity was unavoidable and it could be dangerous as well as irksome to a profoundly thoughtful man and speaker Who was…”

“Paul Johnson says something that's very interesting. He says, there's more agreement in the sources about the death of Jesus than there is about the assassination of Julius Caesar.”

“Jesus possessed broad knowledge, especially of trade and agriculture. This is made clear by his confident and expert references to those practical matters in his sayings and parables.”

“Jesus never made the mistake of supposing that poverty made people virtuous, but he was painfully aware that wealth offered endless opportunities for correct, for corruption. Jesus is general point. About wealth is that it all depends on what you do with it.”

“Today, there are over 100,000 printed biographies of Jesus in English alone.”

“Love of mankind as a whole did not exist in Jesus's day as a concept. The intellectual, social, and racial climate of Jesus's day was hostile to this message of loving mankind as a whole.”

“Jesus was, in terms of his influence, the most important human being in history. He is also the most written about and discussed.”