The Scottish scholar Professor F. F. Bruce claimed, ‘If Jesus had not risen from the dead, we should probably have never heard of him.’33 He may be right. What is certain is that around A.D. 32 a dynamic new movement sprang into existence, beginning with a handful of men who believed Jesus had risen from the dead. A few days earlier they had been terrified at what might happen to them as followers of Jesus, yet after the resurrection they came out of hiding and risked their