He also implies that Jesus is dead and did not rise from the dead as a basis for that part of his talk, when in reality Jesus rose on the third day, a fact known to His apostles by merit of the fact that He appeared and spoke to them repeatedly after His resurrection, and ascended into heaven after a short time, in full view of His apostles.
Hey, he did at least give the benefit of the doubt and preface that we would take Acts as truthful for the purpose of the discussion... So give him a break for that.
Jews don’t believe any of it, he’s just cross-examining. No hidden tricks here— I want counter-arguments to see if we Jews have the ready-answers to them.
Roger that— apostles saw resurrection.
So he’s using the same excuses/reasoning that the priests and authorities used at the time of Jesus’ resurrection? How original...