Quotes from Richard Beard

Miracles are disruptive. When the dust settles there is always damage done – not all the hungry are fed, and not all the sick are healed.

Dying is easy. Anyone can do it. Living is the problem – Lazarus has been brought back to life and he can't explain himself.

Death is the most predictable of life's events. It is the opposite of a miracle.

Thomas has privileged information about the health status of Jesus in the period after the crucifixion

a defaulting not from prescribed activity but from prescribed being'.

Listen. We are on a flight from Jerusalem to Antioch with a change at Schiphol. Whatever the destination, there is always a change at Schiphol.

According to John a man died, was in a tomb for three days, and then on the Sunday he came back to life and walked away. A god is involved. 'That figures.

Cassius Gallio had been right, but being right was overrated. Being smart was safer.