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Originally Posted by daughter
If you are interested, James was one of Jesus' brothers, and he didn't believe Jesus was the Messiah, until he saw Him rise from the dead. It changed his life. He stood up and preached the truth in Jerusalem, until eventually he was stoned to death.
Why would somebody risk such a horrible death for a lie?
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And not just Jesus' half-brother, but also a Pharisee (Nicodemus), a tax collector (Matthew), a fisherman (Simon Peter), a Jewish Zealot (Simon "Zelotes"), a member of the Sanhedrin (Saul of Tarsus), and the list goes on. So many people who were "in the know" as far as the scriptures were concerned, or at least had every aspect of their lives touched by them, and each one of them betting their lives on the fact that Jesus was exactly who He claimed to be.