1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:40,005 --> 00:00:40,937 Bailiff: All rise. 4 00:00:45,355 --> 00:00:46,425 Judge: Thank you everyone. 5 00:00:48,082 --> 00:00:49,049 You may be seated. 6 00:00:54,088 --> 00:00:57,609 Over the last few days, you've heard closing arguments 7 00:00:57,643 --> 00:01:00,474 from representatives of various faiths. 8 00:01:00,508 --> 00:01:02,441 You have also heard from people who believe 9 00:01:02,476 --> 00:01:05,168 that there is no such thing as eternity, 10 00:01:05,203 --> 00:01:07,619 as well as those who say we cannot possibly know 11 00:01:07,653 --> 00:01:09,517 what happens next. 12 00:01:09,552 --> 00:01:13,349 Today we will hear from our last representative, 13 00:01:13,383 --> 00:01:15,834 a man of the Christian faith, 14 00:01:15,868 --> 00:01:19,527 and I know that this has been a long and complex process 15 00:01:19,562 --> 00:01:23,462 but I would ask that you give him the same attention 16 00:01:23,497 --> 00:01:26,396 and consideration that you have granted 17 00:01:26,431 --> 00:01:28,950 our other representatives. 18 00:01:28,985 --> 00:01:31,263 Counsel, the floor is yours. 19 00:01:42,412 --> 00:01:44,449 Tom: Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. 20 00:01:44,483 --> 00:01:46,416 Jury: Good morning. 21 00:01:46,451 --> 00:01:48,418 Tom: First, I wanna start by thanking you 22 00:01:49,661 --> 00:01:50,869 for the attention that you have paid 23 00:01:50,903 --> 00:01:53,734 to the evidence throughout this week. 24 00:01:53,768 --> 00:01:55,874 I know that all of you are busy. 25 00:01:55,908 --> 00:02:00,810 Many of you are missing important jobs, but I would submit 26 00:02:02,294 --> 00:02:05,953 to you that the evidence that you have listened to this week 27 00:02:07,403 --> 00:02:10,475 and deliberations that you will enter into shortly 28 00:02:11,959 --> 00:02:15,618 and the decisions that you will come to as a group 29 00:02:16,929 --> 00:02:20,726 will end up being the most important decision 30 00:02:20,761 --> 00:02:21,727 of your lifetime. 31 00:02:24,040 --> 00:02:27,699 I appreciate that you have listened to the arguments 32 00:02:27,733 --> 00:02:32,048 which have been made by my brother and sister in the law 33 00:02:32,082 --> 00:02:35,741 in terms of the other two positions that have been presented 34 00:02:35,776 --> 00:02:40,332 that are held by members of the faith of Judaism, 35 00:02:40,367 --> 00:02:43,059 the faith of Islam, those who are agnostic, 36 00:02:43,093 --> 00:02:44,371 those who are atheist... 37 00:02:45,820 --> 00:02:49,548 and I now ask you to listen to my closing argument, 38 00:02:49,583 --> 00:02:54,070 as I present to you, our view of what we believe 39 00:02:54,104 --> 00:02:55,554 the evidence has shown. 40 00:02:56,555 --> 00:02:58,833 This case starts in Bethlehem, 41 00:02:58,868 --> 00:03:01,353 where this man Jesus was born. 42 00:03:02,630 --> 00:03:07,117 His life here on earth ends at Golgotha, 43 00:03:07,152 --> 00:03:09,741 the place of the cross. 44 00:03:09,775 --> 00:03:13,434 But the question mark that you will have to decide 45 00:03:14,539 --> 00:03:17,058 is what happened in that tomb 46 00:03:18,198 --> 00:03:22,926 and how that body got out of that tomb. 47 00:03:25,584 --> 00:03:28,587 Let me start by explaining what the three 48 00:03:28,622 --> 00:03:30,140 of us all agree on. 49 00:03:31,245 --> 00:03:33,661 First of all, there's no question 50 00:03:33,696 --> 00:03:37,355 about whether Jesus was an historical figure. 51 00:03:37,389 --> 00:03:39,564 There are many secular historians 52 00:03:39,598 --> 00:03:42,705 who have spent their lives researching the time period 53 00:03:42,739 --> 00:03:43,982 of Jesus of Nazareth. 54 00:03:45,466 --> 00:03:49,781 Also, there's no question that Jesus was crucified. 55 00:03:49,815 --> 00:03:52,439 There were many, many witnesses to the crucifixion 56 00:03:52,473 --> 00:03:53,819 including not the least 57 00:03:53,854 --> 00:03:56,201 of which, a Roman Centurion and a Roman guard. 58 00:03:58,238 --> 00:04:03,139 And third... that from the time that he left the cross, 59 00:04:04,002 --> 00:04:06,107 and was put into the tomb, 60 00:04:06,142 --> 00:04:10,871 that just two days after he left the cross, was empty. 61 00:04:10,905 --> 00:04:12,597 The body was not there. 62 00:04:14,530 --> 00:04:16,117 How did that happen? 63 00:04:17,981 --> 00:04:19,949 Well, you have heard the three options. 64 00:04:21,468 --> 00:04:26,438 Option number one is that Jesus got out 65 00:04:27,197 --> 00:04:28,371 of that tomb on his own, 66 00:04:28,406 --> 00:04:30,787 which would mean he didn't die on the cross. 67 00:04:32,237 --> 00:04:37,035 He may have been suffering, but he somehow recovered 68 00:04:37,069 --> 00:04:40,625 inside the tomb and somehow got out on his own. 69 00:04:42,074 --> 00:04:46,631 Second, is that somebody, friend or foe stole the body, 70 00:04:47,459 --> 00:04:48,322 dead or alive. 71 00:04:49,910 --> 00:04:54,604 And option number three, is that as Jesus predicted 72 00:04:55,571 --> 00:04:58,298 he was resurrected from death. 73 00:04:59,954 --> 00:05:01,922 From that witness stand, 74 00:05:01,956 --> 00:05:05,753 you have heard historical experts who are secular 75 00:05:05,788 --> 00:05:07,790 who simply told you about the time. 76 00:05:08,963 --> 00:05:11,966 We've heard from medical experts. 77 00:05:12,001 --> 00:05:14,728 We've heard from eye witnesses, 78 00:05:14,762 --> 00:05:19,698 to the passion and the crucifixion that occurred. 79 00:05:21,390 --> 00:05:23,599 And we have heard from the written testimony 80 00:05:23,633 --> 00:05:28,604 from back at that time. From Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, 81 00:05:30,088 --> 00:05:32,504 what are commonly referred to as the Four Gospels; 82 00:05:33,747 --> 00:05:35,576 who wrote both what they saw as well 83 00:05:35,611 --> 00:05:39,822 as what they collected in terms of testimony from others. 84 00:05:39,856 --> 00:05:43,515 But in this courtroom, you are to take that testimony 85 00:05:43,550 --> 00:05:45,483 from that stand that was given to you 86 00:05:45,517 --> 00:05:49,935 from those Four Gospels as sworn depositions 87 00:05:49,970 --> 00:05:54,423 of those individuals, because indeed it is testimony 88 00:05:54,457 --> 00:05:59,393 that those four men protected and shared with the world. 89 00:06:03,293 --> 00:06:07,505 Now let's talk about the historical evidence. 90 00:06:07,539 --> 00:06:10,093 Matthew testified about the tomb. 91 00:06:11,371 --> 00:06:12,682 He explained, first of all 92 00:06:12,717 --> 00:06:17,307 that there was a rock that was placed 93 00:06:17,342 --> 00:06:19,862 in front of the entrance to the tomb. 94 00:06:21,311 --> 00:06:26,351 Second, he explained that the tomb was sealed, 95 00:06:28,836 --> 00:06:31,114 and third, Matthew explained 96 00:06:31,149 --> 00:06:34,808 that a guard was set in front of the tomb. 97 00:06:36,534 --> 00:06:41,504 Now, why would the Romans go to such trouble 98 00:06:42,850 --> 00:06:45,405 in guarding a dead body? 99 00:06:47,130 --> 00:06:52,101 Well, first it was a precaution against the very thing 100 00:06:53,482 --> 00:06:55,069 that the Jewish authorities were concerned about, 101 00:06:55,104 --> 00:06:59,798 and that is that body being stolen, because they wanted 102 00:06:59,833 --> 00:07:04,078 to protect against any talk of a resurrection. 103 00:07:04,113 --> 00:07:07,496 You can go to Israel today and see tombs just like the one 104 00:07:07,530 --> 00:07:09,014 that Jesus was put in. 105 00:07:09,049 --> 00:07:12,155 You've essentially got a cave that is dug out 106 00:07:12,190 --> 00:07:14,434 and then there'll be an opening. 107 00:07:14,468 --> 00:07:16,401 And then there's going to be a closure 108 00:07:16,436 --> 00:07:18,783 of the opening by a stone. 109 00:07:18,817 --> 00:07:23,788 What we know about Jesus' tomb is this... Mark wrote 110 00:07:25,030 --> 00:07:26,204 as you heard from the witness stand 111 00:07:26,238 --> 00:07:28,793 in a fourth century manuscript 112 00:07:28,827 --> 00:07:32,866 that the stone that was placed in front of Jesus' tomb 113 00:07:32,900 --> 00:07:37,871 was so large that even 20 men could not move it 114 00:07:38,768 --> 00:07:39,735 once it was set in place. 115 00:07:41,046 --> 00:07:42,531 Is it possible? 116 00:07:42,565 --> 00:07:47,536 Like my opponents say that in the middle of the night, 117 00:07:49,020 --> 00:07:51,022 the followers of Jesus came maybe with some special tools 118 00:07:51,056 --> 00:07:53,714 or something like that and were able 119 00:07:53,749 --> 00:07:56,061 to get that big stone moved. 120 00:07:57,200 --> 00:07:58,305 Yeah, that's possible. 121 00:07:59,755 --> 00:08:00,583 Is it likely? 122 00:08:01,998 --> 00:08:03,483 No. 123 00:08:03,517 --> 00:08:07,176 If you remember A.T Robinson, the New Testament scholar, 124 00:08:07,210 --> 00:08:11,111 explained that the sealing of the tomb was done by a cord 125 00:08:11,145 --> 00:08:14,114 that would be stretched across the tomb 126 00:08:14,148 --> 00:08:16,461 and then both ends of the cord 127 00:08:16,496 --> 00:08:19,844 would be stamped with the Imperial Seal. 128 00:08:21,604 --> 00:08:22,398 Why do that? 129 00:08:22,432 --> 00:08:23,641 What's that all about? 130 00:08:23,675 --> 00:08:27,230 Well, that seal was of the Romans, 131 00:08:27,265 --> 00:08:30,820 the people who occupied Israel at that time. 132 00:08:32,063 --> 00:08:35,963 You break that cord, you break that seal 133 00:08:35,998 --> 00:08:39,657 and the full power of Roman law and authority 134 00:08:39,691 --> 00:08:41,451 comes down on you. 135 00:08:43,799 --> 00:08:48,735 Let's also remember this, Jesus at that time 136 00:08:50,150 --> 00:08:54,188 was the most notorious criminal in all of Jerusalem. 137 00:08:56,294 --> 00:09:00,263 The Romans and the Jewish leaders 138 00:09:00,298 --> 00:09:04,440 didn't wanna take any chances, the Roman guard 139 00:09:04,474 --> 00:09:09,410 was at the tomb around the clock at all hours. 140 00:09:10,860 --> 00:09:13,276 And remember the testimony of professor Daniel Whedon, 141 00:09:14,450 --> 00:09:16,728 who's a Professor of Ancient Languages 142 00:09:16,763 --> 00:09:19,697 at Wesleyan University, who explained 143 00:09:19,731 --> 00:09:24,702 that a guard is not one person, but instead 16 soldiers. 144 00:09:28,084 --> 00:09:32,813 We know that Roman guards took their jobs seriously. 145 00:09:32,848 --> 00:09:34,366 And why is that? 146 00:09:34,401 --> 00:09:36,921 Because of the punishment that was inflicted on you 147 00:09:36,955 --> 00:09:39,544 in the event that you did not do so. 148 00:09:39,579 --> 00:09:42,271 If you abdicated your duties, 149 00:09:42,305 --> 00:09:45,205 if you fell asleep on the job, if you walked away 150 00:09:45,239 --> 00:09:50,210 from being on watch, your punishment was death. 151 00:09:50,244 --> 00:09:52,868 They literally threw you off a cliff. 152 00:09:52,902 --> 00:09:54,317 And all the guards knew that. 153 00:09:55,802 --> 00:09:59,633 So you can rest assured that that guard stayed vigilant 154 00:09:59,668 --> 00:10:02,015 throughout the time that they were there. 155 00:10:02,049 --> 00:10:05,363 And remember something about this guard. 156 00:10:05,397 --> 00:10:07,745 On the very day they took their post, 157 00:10:07,779 --> 00:10:11,783 members of that same group of soldiers flogged Jesus 158 00:10:11,818 --> 00:10:14,130 within an inch of his life. 159 00:10:14,165 --> 00:10:15,684 And what does that mean? 160 00:10:15,718 --> 00:10:17,720 It means taking the leather straps that are loaded down 161 00:10:17,755 --> 00:10:22,760 with rocks and have glass put in them and sharpened bones 162 00:10:24,209 --> 00:10:28,213 and taking them to the man's front and his back, 163 00:10:28,248 --> 00:10:33,218 and whipping him 39 times tearing the flesh off of his body. 164 00:10:35,704 --> 00:10:37,188 And then they took that man 165 00:10:38,396 --> 00:10:41,433 and they had him carry his own cross 166 00:10:41,468 --> 00:10:46,438 and they nailed him with railroad spikes to a cross. 167 00:10:47,647 --> 00:10:51,305 And then they sat there and with their Centurion 168 00:10:51,340 --> 00:10:54,964 who was in charge, they watched for six hours 169 00:10:54,999 --> 00:10:56,725 while the man died, 170 00:10:56,759 --> 00:11:01,661 while he slowly suffocated from his own body weight. 171 00:11:02,800 --> 00:11:05,112 No, the position of the Roman guards 172 00:11:05,147 --> 00:11:10,117 and their feelings about Jesus of Nazareth is crystal clear. 173 00:11:11,601 --> 00:11:14,466 Their allegiance was to Rome. 174 00:11:14,501 --> 00:11:15,813 And that's where it stayed. 175 00:11:19,437 --> 00:11:21,991 Well, think about this hypothetical. 176 00:11:22,026 --> 00:11:24,614 Let's take what we said before and just add to it, 177 00:11:24,649 --> 00:11:26,547 which is, maybe in the middle of the night 178 00:11:26,582 --> 00:11:27,928 you got the 11 apostles 179 00:11:27,963 --> 00:11:30,448 or however many followers were needed. 180 00:11:30,482 --> 00:11:33,382 And they come in with specialized tools and they come in 181 00:11:33,416 --> 00:11:37,317 with a counterfeit stamp and they pry the thing open, 182 00:11:37,351 --> 00:11:40,389 get Jesus' body out, put the cord back over it 183 00:11:40,423 --> 00:11:43,219 and use the counterfeit stamp and seal it up again. 184 00:11:43,254 --> 00:11:44,358 And everything's good. 185 00:11:48,466 --> 00:11:49,329 Is that possible? 186 00:11:50,606 --> 00:11:51,607 Yeah, it's possible. 187 00:11:52,953 --> 00:11:56,336 But in your life experience and common sense, 188 00:11:56,370 --> 00:11:58,925 does that make any sense to you whatsoever? 189 00:11:58,959 --> 00:12:01,444 No. It's doubtful. 190 00:12:04,102 --> 00:12:08,762 Now opposing counsel would have you believe 191 00:12:08,797 --> 00:12:11,592 that Jesus was just an historical figure, 192 00:12:12,973 --> 00:12:15,493 barely charismatic, because he had a following 193 00:12:15,527 --> 00:12:18,496 by just some guy from the sticks 194 00:12:18,530 --> 00:12:21,188 and that this whole thing about the resurrection, 195 00:12:21,223 --> 00:12:25,296 is a hoax, clever, make believe a performance. 196 00:12:27,505 --> 00:12:30,680 And they would have you look at Jesus as being 197 00:12:30,715 --> 00:12:35,685 a well-spoken controversial, 198 00:12:35,720 --> 00:12:40,173 radical troublemaker. But let's remember the teaching 199 00:12:40,207 --> 00:12:45,178 of Occam's razor, which is the theory that 200 00:12:46,558 --> 00:12:50,804 oftentimes the simplest explanation is the correct one. 201 00:12:52,737 --> 00:12:55,636 Well, you know, there are some people who believe 202 00:12:55,671 --> 00:12:57,673 that Jesus did not die on the cross, 203 00:12:57,707 --> 00:13:02,195 that he was merely tortured, fell unconscious, 204 00:13:02,229 --> 00:13:04,991 body put into the tomb, gets out of tomb on its own 205 00:13:05,025 --> 00:13:08,373 but it comes back to, did he die on the cross? 206 00:13:09,443 --> 00:13:10,893 What do we know? 207 00:13:10,928 --> 00:13:12,895 There were two things that are important to know 208 00:13:12,930 --> 00:13:16,105 other than that Romans know how to kill. 209 00:13:16,140 --> 00:13:19,660 And that is at the end of the six hours, 210 00:13:19,695 --> 00:13:23,837 as was explained from the gospel, 211 00:13:23,872 --> 00:13:28,842 a Roman guard took a spear and thrust it into the side 212 00:13:30,361 --> 00:13:33,847 of Jesus and both blood and a clear fluid, water, came out. 213 00:13:35,573 --> 00:13:38,162 Well, we know from medical science today 214 00:13:38,196 --> 00:13:42,304 that from the blood loss that Jesus had, 215 00:13:42,338 --> 00:13:45,272 that he would have developed probably either 216 00:13:45,307 --> 00:13:49,518 or both pleural effusion which is water on the lungs 217 00:13:50,415 --> 00:13:53,004 or pericardial effusion 218 00:13:53,039 --> 00:13:55,006 which is water surrounding the heart. 219 00:13:57,146 --> 00:14:02,048 And if there was enough water in Jesus' chest 220 00:14:02,082 --> 00:14:06,017 so that when he was pierced with a spear into the heart 221 00:14:06,052 --> 00:14:09,434 or into the lung, so that water came out 222 00:14:09,469 --> 00:14:10,953 so that the Romans can see it, 223 00:14:12,506 --> 00:14:15,820 you know one thing. You know that that man is in a state 224 00:14:15,855 --> 00:14:20,825 of hypovolemic shock. And most of us in this courtroom 225 00:14:23,690 --> 00:14:26,037 would have a difficult time surviving 226 00:14:26,072 --> 00:14:27,797 under those circumstances, 227 00:14:27,832 --> 00:14:30,593 even with today's modern medicine. 228 00:14:32,043 --> 00:14:34,356 We also know that there's another test here. 229 00:14:35,736 --> 00:14:37,980 Its because it was Passover, 230 00:14:38,015 --> 00:14:40,224 you couldn't continue with a crucifixion 231 00:14:41,156 --> 00:14:42,467 once it became dark. 232 00:14:43,675 --> 00:14:46,782 Because it would violate Jewish law 233 00:14:46,816 --> 00:14:47,748 and this was the Passover. 234 00:14:47,783 --> 00:14:49,405 So these people had to be dead. 235 00:14:50,406 --> 00:14:52,719 So they broke the legs. 236 00:14:52,753 --> 00:14:55,273 The Roman guards broke the legs of the other two men 237 00:14:55,308 --> 00:14:58,345 who were on either side of Jesus, who were being crucified. 238 00:14:58,380 --> 00:14:59,588 Now why do that? 239 00:14:59,622 --> 00:15:01,797 Well, it means you can't push up anymore. 240 00:15:02,971 --> 00:15:06,112 So you're like this and you suffocate 241 00:15:06,146 --> 00:15:07,941 from your own body weight, 242 00:15:09,598 --> 00:15:11,772 but they didn't do that with Jesus. 243 00:15:11,807 --> 00:15:13,153 They didn't break his legs. 244 00:15:14,223 --> 00:15:15,017 Why is that? 245 00:15:16,674 --> 00:15:19,539 They certainly didn't have any problem torturing him. 246 00:15:19,573 --> 00:15:21,334 It's not like they felt for the guy. 247 00:15:22,542 --> 00:15:24,164 Its because they knew he was already dead. 248 00:15:25,683 --> 00:15:28,065 Again, John, the eyewitness knew he was dead. 249 00:15:29,514 --> 00:15:34,105 Ladies and gentlemen, Jesus died on that cross. 250 00:15:35,279 --> 00:15:38,627 The idea that he didn't is foolishness. 251 00:15:43,666 --> 00:15:46,531 Now you might wonder how the idea 252 00:15:46,566 --> 00:15:51,536 of Occam's razor explains what is truly a miracle? 253 00:15:53,366 --> 00:15:55,368 I mean, a resurrection is a miracle. 254 00:15:56,679 --> 00:15:59,579 In this instance, there was no question 255 00:15:59,613 --> 00:16:01,788 that Jesus had already performed miracles. 256 00:16:02,685 --> 00:16:04,377 He turned the water into wine 257 00:16:04,411 --> 00:16:07,552 at the wedding in Canaan was his first miracle. 258 00:16:07,587 --> 00:16:10,900 He went through systematically healing people 259 00:16:10,935 --> 00:16:14,352 who were either blind or had leprosy 260 00:16:14,387 --> 00:16:17,355 or had other diseases or problems since birth. 261 00:16:18,874 --> 00:16:23,810 He had fed 5,000 people with a few loaves and a few fish. 262 00:16:25,225 --> 00:16:27,572 And that was reported by every one of the gospel writers, 263 00:16:27,607 --> 00:16:29,989 Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, all four of them. 264 00:16:31,438 --> 00:16:35,822 Christ himself had even raised other people from the dead. 265 00:16:37,893 --> 00:16:42,001 The testimony was that he had done so on three occasions, 266 00:16:43,209 --> 00:16:46,212 one of them being Lazarus, his friend 267 00:16:46,246 --> 00:16:50,250 who had been in the tomb for four days, 268 00:16:50,285 --> 00:16:53,460 but you know even the Jewish leaders at the time 269 00:16:53,495 --> 00:16:56,774 they didn't challenge whether the miracles occurred. 270 00:16:56,808 --> 00:17:00,019 They couldn't, there were too many witnesses to them. 271 00:17:00,053 --> 00:17:04,989 No, instead they challenged him to his face, 272 00:17:05,921 --> 00:17:07,716 on more than one occasion asking, 273 00:17:07,750 --> 00:17:12,100 "By whose authority are you performing these miracles?" 274 00:17:13,411 --> 00:17:15,034 That's what they wanted to know. 275 00:17:15,068 --> 00:17:18,209 So the idea of there being a miracle 276 00:17:18,244 --> 00:17:21,350 that's not really in dispute. 277 00:17:21,385 --> 00:17:22,731 These were not shows. 278 00:17:24,319 --> 00:17:26,666 Now there are differences in testimony. 279 00:17:26,700 --> 00:17:28,668 A lot of people point that out. 280 00:17:28,702 --> 00:17:30,532 They say that well, you know, when we listened 281 00:17:30,566 --> 00:17:33,121 to these guys, explain what happened at the tomb. 282 00:17:33,155 --> 00:17:35,847 All their stories are a little bit different, 283 00:17:35,882 --> 00:17:39,989 that ladies and gentlemen is common in trials. 284 00:17:40,024 --> 00:17:42,613 You can have one of the most straightforward cases, 285 00:17:42,647 --> 00:17:44,822 a bank robbery, okay? 286 00:17:44,856 --> 00:17:46,996 And you're gonna have several witnesses, tellers, 287 00:17:47,031 --> 00:17:49,792 and customers, and whoever else is in the bank. 288 00:17:49,827 --> 00:17:52,140 And there's gonna be differences in their testimony 289 00:17:52,174 --> 00:17:56,523 about what the robber looked like, how tall the robber was, 290 00:17:56,558 --> 00:17:58,905 what the chronology of events were, 291 00:17:58,939 --> 00:18:02,115 what the gun looked like, what the robber said. 292 00:18:03,565 --> 00:18:07,189 In fact, what you find is that if everybody says 293 00:18:07,224 --> 00:18:12,194 the exact same thing, that testimony is not credible, 294 00:18:13,092 --> 00:18:14,300 because that just tells you 295 00:18:14,334 --> 00:18:15,577 that everybody has gotten together. 296 00:18:15,611 --> 00:18:17,958 It's the most normal thing for people to do. 297 00:18:17,993 --> 00:18:21,238 And quote, unquote, gotten their stories straight. 298 00:18:21,272 --> 00:18:22,894 They're singing the company song. 299 00:18:24,103 --> 00:18:26,381 That is not credible testimony. 300 00:18:26,415 --> 00:18:28,659 So how do you figure out what to do 301 00:18:28,693 --> 00:18:31,731 when you've got circumstances where you've got differences 302 00:18:31,765 --> 00:18:32,594 in the testimony? 303 00:18:34,043 --> 00:18:38,462 Is you look to see what is important about what occurred? 304 00:18:39,773 --> 00:18:41,672 Let's look to see what happened in this case. 305 00:18:43,915 --> 00:18:48,644 All four of the gospel writers say that Mary from Magdala 306 00:18:48,679 --> 00:18:52,061 known as Mary Magdalene went to the tomb, 307 00:18:54,202 --> 00:18:59,138 all of the writers, explain that that tomb was open 308 00:18:59,931 --> 00:19:00,760 and that it was empty. 309 00:19:02,693 --> 00:19:06,006 There are many other similarities 310 00:19:06,041 --> 00:19:08,802 that you heard the testimony about, 311 00:19:10,942 --> 00:19:14,325 but three of the gospels told us 312 00:19:14,360 --> 00:19:17,639 that there was a man on the inside wearing white, 313 00:19:17,673 --> 00:19:22,644 possibly an angel who said that, "Jesus is not here. 314 00:19:26,199 --> 00:19:27,200 He is risen." 315 00:19:29,202 --> 00:19:33,379 You have a lot of other similarities in the testimony. 316 00:19:34,828 --> 00:19:38,038 But the most important is that after that tomb is empty, 317 00:19:39,212 --> 00:19:43,182 Jesus himself appeared to dozens of people, 318 00:19:43,216 --> 00:19:47,669 including all 11 of the remaining apostles. 319 00:19:49,498 --> 00:19:53,088 And that he picked up to some extent where he left off 320 00:19:54,262 --> 00:19:57,092 that is he went up to Galilee 321 00:19:58,576 --> 00:20:02,615 where he picked his apostles from and he ate with them. 322 00:20:03,616 --> 00:20:04,893 And he walked with them. 323 00:20:06,343 --> 00:20:11,106 Unafraid, out in the open, even offered his wounds 324 00:20:13,798 --> 00:20:18,527 of his hands and his side for others to see 325 00:20:19,770 --> 00:20:21,910 including most notably, 326 00:20:21,944 --> 00:20:26,155 the apostle whom I share a first name with 327 00:20:26,190 --> 00:20:29,745 that being Thomas. You know him probably 328 00:20:29,780 --> 00:20:34,509 as the doubting Thomas, who did not believe 329 00:20:34,543 --> 00:20:37,926 that Jesus had arisen, even though his other apostles said 330 00:20:37,960 --> 00:20:41,654 that he had, that he would not believe 331 00:20:41,688 --> 00:20:46,624 until he put his hands into Jesus' wounds. 332 00:20:46,659 --> 00:20:47,867 So what did Jesus do? 333 00:20:49,040 --> 00:20:53,528 He appeared to Thomas and he said, 334 00:20:54,770 --> 00:20:59,534 "Go ahead, put your hands into my wounds." 335 00:21:01,398 --> 00:21:06,299 And Thomas on seeing this, he sees this man he's traveled 336 00:21:07,783 --> 00:21:10,303 with for three years who now is alive and in front of him. 337 00:21:11,442 --> 00:21:13,479 And he recognizes what happens. 338 00:21:13,513 --> 00:21:15,653 And he drops to his knees 339 00:21:15,688 --> 00:21:18,587 and he looks right up in the face of the man. 340 00:21:18,622 --> 00:21:20,382 He knows his friend to be Jesus. 341 00:21:20,417 --> 00:21:23,489 And he says, "My Lord, my God." 342 00:21:26,940 --> 00:21:27,769 Why? 343 00:21:29,805 --> 00:21:34,776 Because he knew right then and there that Jesus was Christ, 344 00:21:38,642 --> 00:21:43,612 he was the Messiah, he was the son of the living God. 345 00:21:45,649 --> 00:21:50,309 Well, the feat of what happened was so staggering, 346 00:21:51,517 --> 00:21:54,243 was so convincing, was so important. 347 00:21:55,969 --> 00:22:00,905 These men left everything they had and their homes 348 00:22:00,940 --> 00:22:03,287 and went to all four corners of the known world, 349 00:22:04,737 --> 00:22:09,189 and went ahead and preached the gospel of Jesus Christ 350 00:22:10,329 --> 00:22:11,778 and think of what kind of men these were. 351 00:22:11,813 --> 00:22:13,366 These weren't some kind of nuts. 352 00:22:15,195 --> 00:22:17,059 They were fishermen for the most part. 353 00:22:18,440 --> 00:22:21,961 Working class, they lived comfortably enough. 354 00:22:21,995 --> 00:22:24,101 They were relatively safe. 355 00:22:24,135 --> 00:22:25,620 They were up in Galilee. 356 00:22:25,654 --> 00:22:28,070 They went down in Jerusalem where all the Romans were. 357 00:22:29,520 --> 00:22:33,490 They left the safety of their homes and their occupations. 358 00:22:33,524 --> 00:22:38,322 And these guys traveled through the wilderness, 359 00:22:38,357 --> 00:22:41,360 the completely unknown parts 360 00:22:41,394 --> 00:22:46,365 of the world preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ 361 00:22:47,883 --> 00:22:50,576 that he was the Son of God, preaching the resurrection, 362 00:22:50,610 --> 00:22:52,232 preaching eternal life. 363 00:22:53,682 --> 00:22:54,787 And where did they go? 364 00:22:56,029 --> 00:23:00,482 Think about it, North Africa, Greece, India, 365 00:23:04,348 --> 00:23:09,353 modern day Russia, all to preach the gospel. 366 00:23:11,355 --> 00:23:15,255 Now they committed the rest of their lives to this. 367 00:23:15,290 --> 00:23:19,363 And they ended up giving the rest of their lives to this. 368 00:23:20,778 --> 00:23:24,713 These men who preached about Jesus did so at a cost. 369 00:23:24,748 --> 00:23:26,335 And they knew what the cost was. 370 00:23:27,682 --> 00:23:31,133 Very first one who died was Stephen. 371 00:23:31,168 --> 00:23:33,066 He was stoned to death. 372 00:23:34,205 --> 00:23:37,346 Thomas was killed with a spear. 373 00:23:37,381 --> 00:23:42,421 Bartholomew was flayed alive with a knife 374 00:23:44,595 --> 00:23:46,079 and then was crucified. 375 00:23:48,185 --> 00:23:52,361 And this happened to one, after another, after another 376 00:23:52,396 --> 00:23:53,259 after another. 377 00:23:54,985 --> 00:23:58,126 And these reports of the death of the apostles, 378 00:23:58,160 --> 00:24:00,059 they don't come from the New Testament. 379 00:24:00,093 --> 00:24:02,371 They come from secular historians. 380 00:24:04,719 --> 00:24:06,134 You can believe it. 381 00:24:06,168 --> 00:24:07,687 You don't have to believe in the New Testament 382 00:24:07,722 --> 00:24:09,620 to believe the way that these men died. 383 00:24:10,483 --> 00:24:11,657 I'll tell you one thing, 384 00:24:13,003 --> 00:24:17,110 is that those guys were not about to do that 385 00:24:17,145 --> 00:24:20,942 if they thought that Jesus had pulled a fast one on them, 386 00:24:22,495 --> 00:24:27,466 no, they believed in a simple truth that the resurrection 387 00:24:30,503 --> 00:24:35,474 had occurred just as Jesus said, it would, 388 00:24:36,923 --> 00:24:40,720 the apostles understood the resurrection to be a simple fact 389 00:24:40,755 --> 00:24:43,136 and a true miracle. 390 00:24:43,171 --> 00:24:46,312 And I think you may believe that as well. 391 00:24:46,346 --> 00:24:48,970 Now, the judge is going to instruct you 392 00:24:49,004 --> 00:24:51,386 on how to consider the evidence. 393 00:24:51,420 --> 00:24:52,525 You have two kinds of evidence. 394 00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:54,527 You have direct evidence, okay? 395 00:24:54,562 --> 00:24:57,357 Where someone sees, hears, smells, 396 00:24:57,392 --> 00:24:59,118 whatever through their senses, 397 00:24:59,152 --> 00:25:00,671 their personal witnesses to something. 398 00:25:00,706 --> 00:25:02,915 And eye witness being the easiest example. 399 00:25:02,949 --> 00:25:05,814 There's also circumstantial evidence but what's that? 400 00:25:06,746 --> 00:25:09,508 Well say that, it's the evening 401 00:25:09,542 --> 00:25:12,027 it's winter time and you go to sleep 402 00:25:12,062 --> 00:25:13,857 and there's no snow on the ground. 403 00:25:13,891 --> 00:25:15,134 Next morning, you wake up 404 00:25:15,168 --> 00:25:17,239 and there's an inch of snow on the ground. 405 00:25:18,137 --> 00:25:20,346 You conclude based upon that, 406 00:25:20,380 --> 00:25:21,623 based on your deduction that, 407 00:25:21,658 --> 00:25:23,383 well it must have snowed last night. 408 00:25:23,418 --> 00:25:25,524 That's circumstantial evidence. 409 00:25:25,558 --> 00:25:28,216 Now, the judge is going to explain to you 410 00:25:28,250 --> 00:25:30,252 that the law makes no distinction 411 00:25:30,287 --> 00:25:34,809 between direct evidence and circumstantial evidence. 412 00:25:34,843 --> 00:25:36,362 You're going to be instructed 413 00:25:36,396 --> 00:25:40,262 that you are to make deductions and reach conclusions 414 00:25:40,297 --> 00:25:44,853 which reason and common sense would lead you to make 415 00:25:44,888 --> 00:25:47,615 and that you should not be concerned, whether that's based 416 00:25:47,649 --> 00:25:49,996 on the evidence being direct or circumstantial. 417 00:25:51,515 --> 00:25:55,554 Is it realistic that Jesus did not die on that cross 418 00:25:55,588 --> 00:25:58,177 and recovered in the tomb and walked out on his own? 419 00:25:59,558 --> 00:26:04,114 Is it realistic that his followers got through the guard 420 00:26:05,011 --> 00:26:07,048 and the cord that sealed it 421 00:26:07,082 --> 00:26:11,190 and the stone in order to steal his body? 422 00:26:13,123 --> 00:26:17,092 Or is it realistic that Jesus did for himself 423 00:26:17,127 --> 00:26:22,097 what he had done for others, and that is, the resurrection. 424 00:26:23,305 --> 00:26:25,756 And that's how the body got out of that tomb. 425 00:26:27,275 --> 00:26:31,659 In some instances, people use an erroneous standard to try 426 00:26:31,693 --> 00:26:33,764 and judge these kinds of things. 427 00:26:33,799 --> 00:26:38,044 They say, well, you know, I'm not 100% convinced. 428 00:26:38,079 --> 00:26:41,358 Well, in the law, in this courtroom, 429 00:26:41,392 --> 00:26:45,604 there is no such standard, cause in matters of human affairs 430 00:26:46,950 --> 00:26:49,366 there's rarely a situation where any of us 431 00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:52,265 would be 100% convinced. 432 00:26:52,300 --> 00:26:56,304 What we use in courts of law like this is the standard 433 00:26:56,338 --> 00:27:01,343 of reasonable doubt and belief beyond a reasonable doubt. 434 00:27:02,241 --> 00:27:03,725 Now, what is a reasonable doubt? 435 00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:06,245 It's that level of doubt that would cause you to hesitate 436 00:27:06,279 --> 00:27:08,281 in the most important of your affairs. 437 00:27:09,731 --> 00:27:14,287 Our entire United States justice system on the criminal side 438 00:27:14,322 --> 00:27:17,636 is based upon that concept of proof 439 00:27:17,670 --> 00:27:22,641 beyond a reasonable doubt, but not based upon a 100%, 440 00:27:24,815 --> 00:27:29,095 'cause there's always some level of doubt in anything. 441 00:27:29,130 --> 00:27:30,441 I would submit to you 442 00:27:30,476 --> 00:27:33,341 that is the standard that you should use. 443 00:27:33,375 --> 00:27:36,585 And it's a high standard, that you look at the three options 444 00:27:36,620 --> 00:27:38,898 the only possible three options 445 00:27:38,933 --> 00:27:41,521 and decide which one meets that standard. 446 00:27:42,591 --> 00:27:46,906 Because if the resurrection occurred, 447 00:27:48,321 --> 00:27:52,118 it means that Jesus indeed was the Son of God 448 00:27:53,533 --> 00:27:55,674 and that he defeated death. 449 00:27:57,054 --> 00:28:01,645 And that what John said was true, which is that, 450 00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:06,650 "God so loved the world that he gave to us his son, 451 00:28:08,134 --> 00:28:12,829 his only son, so that all who would believe in him 452 00:28:14,278 --> 00:28:17,730 would not perish, but would have everlasting life." 453 00:28:19,180 --> 00:28:21,872 Which means if you believe that the resurrection occurred 454 00:28:23,115 --> 00:28:25,945 that you will have everlasting life. 455 00:28:27,395 --> 00:28:30,743 So when you're deliberating and when you're thinking 456 00:28:30,778 --> 00:28:33,194 about the evidence in this case 457 00:28:33,228 --> 00:28:37,612 and the importance of this decision, it's not just this case 458 00:28:37,646 --> 00:28:41,340 that you're deciding, no ladies and gentlemen 459 00:28:42,582 --> 00:28:45,724 it is your own life that you are deciding. 460 00:28:45,758 --> 00:28:48,588 It is your future, that you are deciding; 461 00:28:48,623 --> 00:28:51,937 both your life here and your life eternal. 462 00:28:53,766 --> 00:28:55,768 The judge is going to explain to you 463 00:28:55,803 --> 00:28:58,219 that when you go into that jury room 464 00:28:58,253 --> 00:29:01,636 there will be a verdict form for you to fill out 465 00:29:01,670 --> 00:29:03,983 at the end of your deliberations. 466 00:29:04,018 --> 00:29:08,885 And I'm going to read it to you exactly what that form says. 467 00:29:17,100 --> 00:29:18,929 You are going to select one choice. 468 00:29:18,964 --> 00:29:23,934 It says as follows quote, "I believe that to get Jesus' body 469 00:29:25,142 --> 00:29:29,526 out of the tomb, one, his body was stolen, 470 00:29:30,734 --> 00:29:35,635 or two, he did not die on the cross, 471 00:29:35,670 --> 00:29:39,743 but instead he passed out and fell unconscious. 472 00:29:39,778 --> 00:29:44,748 And while in the tomb, he revived and got out on his own, 473 00:29:46,854 --> 00:29:51,790 or three, Jesus was resurrected." 474 00:29:52,963 --> 00:29:54,620 There's the only three possibilities. 475 00:29:56,622 --> 00:30:00,729 You are to sign your name and date, 476 00:30:00,764 --> 00:30:01,938 the date of your verdict. 477 00:30:06,563 --> 00:30:07,840 And as you deliberate, 478 00:30:09,738 --> 00:30:14,709 the question that you really have to ask yourself is this, 479 00:30:16,435 --> 00:30:20,197 who moved that stone? 480 00:30:22,579 --> 00:30:25,306 Ladies and gentlemen thank you for your attention 481 00:30:26,652 --> 00:30:29,931 during my closing argument, and my explanation 482 00:30:29,966 --> 00:30:33,245 of what we, the Christian Church, believe occurred 483 00:30:34,142 --> 00:30:34,936 in that tomb. 484 00:30:36,351 --> 00:30:38,319 I ask you as you go for your deliberations 485 00:30:38,353 --> 00:30:40,908 that you will listen to one another. 486 00:30:40,942 --> 00:30:44,497 Use your mind, use your heart, 487 00:30:44,532 --> 00:30:47,190 use your soul, use your conscience, 488 00:30:47,224 --> 00:30:48,881 and you consider everything that you've heard 489 00:30:48,916 --> 00:30:50,745 during this past week. 490 00:30:50,779 --> 00:30:55,750 And you render a verdict which is fair and speaks the truth. 491 00:30:57,717 --> 00:30:59,616 Thank you for your attention. 492 00:31:04,759 --> 00:31:06,312 Judge: Thank you counselor. 493 00:31:06,347 --> 00:31:09,660 Jury, you have now heard the full arguments 494 00:31:09,695 --> 00:31:12,698 from members of each faith presented here. 495 00:31:12,732 --> 00:31:15,632 After I dismiss you, please go directly 496 00:31:15,666 --> 00:31:19,601 to the deliberation room and elect a foreperson. 497 00:31:19,636 --> 00:31:22,881 All the evidence will be with you in the jury room, 498 00:31:22,915 --> 00:31:24,675 you may ask any question 499 00:31:24,710 --> 00:31:27,333 or review any evidence necessary 500 00:31:27,368 --> 00:31:30,026 but you must reach a verdict. 501 00:31:30,060 --> 00:31:32,269 You are now released to begin deliberation. 502 00:32:05,371 --> 00:32:07,718 I understand you've reached a conclusion. 503 00:32:08,892 --> 00:32:11,446 Foreperson, what is your verdict? 504 00:32:15,485 --> 00:32:18,764 Foreperson: Your honor, we, the jury believe...