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Investigating Jesus Part 2 Welcome back to this series “Investigating Jesus Christ”. Together we are exploring the life of the most amazing person who ever lived - Jesus Christ of Nazareth. We will investigate together who this man was and why he matters. Today we continue looking at some of the evidences outside of the Bible for the existence of the man we know as Jesus Christ. Mara Bar-Serapion (70AD) from “Letter to his son”) “What benefit did the Athenians obtain by putting Socrates to death? Famine and plague came upon them as judgment for their crime. Or, the people of Samos for burning Pythagoras? In one moment their country was covered with sand. Or the Jews by murdering their wise king? After that their kingdom was abolished. God rightly avenged these men…The wise king…Lived on in the teachings he enacted.” Pliny the Younger (61-113AD) from “Book 10, Letter 96” “The Christians) were in the habit of meeting on a certain fixed day before it was light, when they sang in alternate verses a hymn