Deliver them from the yoke of roman oppression. Into this powder keg walks jesus of nazareth. His protests against the romans make him a popular hero. To some, he is the messiah. But to the romans, hes political trouble, so they crucify him. The followers of jesus believed that he has risen from the dead and will soon usher in the kingdom of heaven, but when and how will this new faith survive after jesus . Today, more than 2 billion people call themselves christians, people who believe jesus rose from the dead. But perhaps its a miracle that christianity did not disappear when the romans crucified jesus on a lonely hill outside jerusalem almost 2,000 years ago. This region, jerusalem and judea, represented an important land bridge between syria and egypt. So throughout history, this has been a critical place. Jerusalem had been the holy city of judaism for more than 1,000 years, a place that the romans had occupied since 63 b. C. At the time the romans killed jesus, around 30 a. D. ,
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