Choir singing the Angel Gabriel was sent from god to a city of galilee named. Narrator every sunday, in every corner of the world. The virgin, betrothed to a man whose name. Narrator . People gather to hear a story. And the virgins name was mary. Narrator for more than 2,000 years, that story has been told and retold. And to bear a son. Narrator along the way, each generation has found in its telling its own meaning and interpretation. . You shall call his name jesus. narrator that story, of a man called jesus of nazareth, a man who became jesus christ, was originally told by his first followers. . And be called the son of the most high. narrator and then retold in accounts by later believers in the gospels. The gospel according to st. Luke. Narrator so began the building of a religion. In the first two parts, with the help of scholars and historians, we tried to reconstruct his times, and how, after his death, a small jewish sect began to spread the word. Tonight, how that story was t
Frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. And by the corporation for public broadcasting. Major support for frontline is provided by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information is available at macfound. Org. Additional funding is provided by the park foundation, dedicated to heightening Public Awareness of critical issues. The wyncote foundation. And by the frontline journalism fund, supporting investigative reporting and enterprise journalism. Additional funding for this program was provided by the Arthur Vining Davis foundations. choir singing the Angel Gabriel was sent from god to a city of galilee named. Narrator every sunday, in every corner of the world. The virgin, betrothed to a man whose name. Narrator . People gather to hear a story. And the virgins name was mary. Narrator for more than 2,000 years, that story has been told and retold. And to bea
Frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. And by the corporation for public broadcasting. Major support for frontline is provided by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information is available at macfound. Org. Additional funding is provided by the park foundation, dedicated to heightening Public Awareness of critical issues. The wyncote foundation. And by the frontline journalism fund, supporting investigative reporting and enterprise journalism. Additional funding for this program was provided by the Arthur Vining Davis foundations. choir singing the Angel Gabriel was sent from god to a city of galilee named. Narrator every sunday, in every corner of the world. The virgin, betrothed to a man whose name. Narrator . People gather to hear a story. And the virgins name was mary. Narrator for more than 2,000 years, that story has been told and retold. And to bea
Earthly key, a messiah who will 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
And this despite the fact they have both been dead for nearly 2,000 years. One is revered as the mother you could say christianity began the moment mary gave birth. In fact, you can say the whole modern world begins the moment mary gave birth. Its the way we date our checks, make dates, count our age and anniversaries and so on, from the moment mary gave birth. The other mary, called magdalene, her flaming red hair was a sign she was touched by satan. Until she found jesus and her conversion at his hands made her christianitys original hooker with a heart of gold. I think i learned what most people did which was that mary was a prostitute. She appeared at the resurrection but the prominent imagery of her was the repent bad girl. Scholars have called these two marys the two faces of eve one, the first perfect woman. The other, the first fallen woman. When eve ate the forbidden fruit in the garden of eden, Christian Doctrine says she stained humanity with original sin. And women have bee