Reply #27: He did all these things in different places and without TV coverage [View All]

[Lydia Leftcoast]

The powers-that-were in Jerusalem may have rarely ventured outside their villas, and they sure wouldn't know what some guy in Galilee (different Roman province) was doing among the common folk. I don't have time to look it up, but I think the feeding of the 5,000 is described as taking place in Galilee. Jesus went to Jerusalem only for the last week of his life.

In a pre-photography, pre-mass media society, you might know of someone by reputation and have no idea what he looked like, except possibly secondhand information. If you were in Jerusalem, you might hear that there was a guy up in Galilee healing the sick and performing miracles, but his picture wouldn't be available. You might even hear that he came to town and paraded through the streets on a donkey or threw the moneychangers out of the temple. But there would have been no photographers, no TV cameras, and not even any quick sketch artists, so unless you were physically present, you would need to have someone point him out to you.

If Jesus were around in modern times, sure, he'd probably make the evening news and the celebrity gossip shows and magazines, and everyone would know what he looked like. But that was then; this is now.