Jesus Christ rose from the grave.' With this proclamation, the Christian church began. This may be the fundamental element of Christian faith certainly it is the most radical.

It is the winners who write history - their way.

The story of the betrayal of Jesus by Judas gave a moral and religious rationale to anti-Jewish sentiment, and that's what made it persistent and vicious.

There is a light within each person, and it lights up the whole universe. If it does not shine, there is darkness.

Possession of books denounced as heretical was made a criminal offense. Copies of such books were burned and destroyed. But in Upper Egypt, someone, possibly a monk from a nearby monastery of St Pachomius, took the banned books and hid them from destruction - in the jar where they remained buried for almost 1,600 years.

He's an intimate betrayer. That's what's so troubling. Judas turned in his own teacher.

The Book of Revelation is the strangest book in the Bible, and the most controversial. Instead of stories and moral teaching, it offers only visions - dreams and nightmares, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, earthquakes, plagues and war.