Christ Jesus really lived! That is one thing that all agree upon-that this Person who claimed to be the Son of God really lived here on earth among men.
We know when He lived: from about 3 B.C. until about 30 A.D.
We know where He was born: in Bethlehem of Judea, a real town and not a mythological one.
We know where He lived for most of the years of His life: in Nazareth, in northern Galilee.
We know many of the leaders of His time. Their names appear in other historical writings besides the Bible: Herod the Great, his grandson Herod Agrippa, Pontius Pilate, Tiberius Cæsar, Gamaliel, Felix and Festus.
Every history of the ancient world and every encyclopedia records the fact that Jesus lived during the first century of our era.
All dates of history in our calendar are now designated by the letters B.C. and A.D.-both of which refer to the time of the birth of Christ-not Plato, not Julius Cæsar, not Mohammed.
Christ has done more to lift and empower the ethical standards of men than all the philosophers of Greece and Rome combined. He is above all.
And surpassing all that, millions in each generation have had their lives changed by the firm belief that Jesus Christ has given to the world the perfect revelation of God, the only gospel that does deliver from the power of sin, the only assurance of the forgiveness of sins, and the only positive hope of life to come.
JESUS CHRIST LIVED!
And Jesus Christ lives! He ever lives to make intercession for those who believe on Him.