uase dois mil anos depois de Jesus ter sido brutalmente assassinado pelos soldados romanos, mais de 2,2 bilhões de pessoas ainda tentam seguir os ensinamentos de uma das figuras mais polêmicas e revolucionárias da História e que muitos acreditam ser o messias. Agora Bill O’Reilly e Martin Dugard contam em detalhes os acontecimentos inquietantes que levaram à execução do homem mais influente que já caminhou sobre a Terra. Os últimos passos de Jesus apresenta um homem de grande intelecto em sua luta para aceitar o destino que o aguarda. Abrangendo desde o nascimento dele até o fim de seu ministério, a narrativa se concentra em apresentar os fatos que envolvem sua vida e o contexto histórico da época. Este é o resultado de uma extensa pesquisa que traz informações esclarecedoras sobre a Terra Santa, o texto bíblico e toda a crueldade da ocupação romana – inclusive a crucificação, a punição mais desumana e temida naqueles tempos. Este instigante relato sobre Jesus e seu tempo também apresenta em cores vivas outros personagens históricos importantes, como Júlio César, Cleópatra, César Augusto, Herodes, Pôncio Pilatos e João Batista. A partir de descrições ricas sobre os costumes do Império Romano, a vida dos judeus da época e sua maneira de enxergar o mundo, você vai testemunhar os eventos históricos e políticos que tornaram inevitável a morte de Jesus de Nazaré.

I just didn't enjoy this book like so many other people seemed to. I found it dry. It doesn't mean I don't love Jesus, cause I do! ( )

I chose this as an audiobook. I have read a number of O'Reilly's killing series and all have been well done. No exception here. It is a detailed and straightforward narrative of the Jesus story that has held sway for millennia now. Believers, nonbelievers and everyone in between can I suppose draw something from the content.

And a story it is. How much truth you derive from it correlates to how much faith you have in Christianity as a religion. O'Reilly gives no opinion or take on the truth of content but simply relates the story. Now where that story comes from and how it was influenced one way or other over the years is a whole topic for another book. In any event as we await the return. It could come tomorrow or in the year 8,537. But that is also part of the story and the suspense of it all. Stay tuned. ( )

Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard did a really good job with this book, and I really enjoyed reading it. I grew up Catholic and attending Catholic school for 14 years, so I knew Jesus’s story pretty well, yet they were able to tell the story in a new light that really made me think of how the circumstances surrounded Jesus’s death instead of just thinking of it as “God’s plan” for humankind. I highly recommend this as a read for anyone interested. ( )

Now the iconic anchor of The O'Reilly Factor details the events leading up to the murder of the most influential man in history: Jesus of Nazareth. Nearly two thousand years after this beloved and controversial young revolutionary was brutally killed by Roman soldiers, more than 2.2 billion human beings attempt to follow his teachings and believe he is God. Killing Jesus will take readers inside Jesus's life, recounting the seismic political and historical events that made his death inevitable - and changed the world forever.