And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth. It first reworks the story of Jesus bringing Lazarus back from the dead in John 11 - "Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid. The Mandrake Connection hypothesizes that Jesus was conspiring with his friend Lazarus and a handful of others to pull off this hoax. It says that Jesus was upset that he had very few followers and therefore very few people were hearing his message "that the peoples of the earth should treat rich and poor alike with the love and respect." However, if, before he was inevitably executed, he could pull off an elaborate illusion, in which he was thought to have died on the cross and then magically reappear, everyone would believe he was the anointed one and would thus accept his teachings.
#MANDRAKE BIBLE TV#
However, a website called The Mandrake Connection (which may have been the source for the TV producers) lays it out.
The Discovery program didn't, in the part I watched, get into details about the conspiracy. And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead and, behold, he goeth before you into Galilee there shall ye see him: lo, I have told you." He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. "Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified. As opposed to what the Christian Bible proclaims - that Jesus died on the cross, was buried and then rose from the dead as the resurrected Christ - some people apparently believe that his death on the cross was all a hoax, pulled off with an elaborate trick using this herb/drug mandrake, which was historically administered with a vinegar potion.īefore I explain the theory, take a look what is written in Matthew 28 about the resurrection, where Martha and Mary, the sisters of Lazarus, discover that the body of Jesus is not in his tomb: The 15-minute segment I watched dealt with the mystery of Jesus's crucifixion and resurrection. Last night, after getting home from a Super Bowl party, I was flipping the dial and came across a Discovery Channel program called, "Jesus: The Complete Story," which apparently first ran in 2001. (I'm not kidding.) I guess the inspiration for the strip came from its creator ingesting mandrake and then hallucinating.
#MANDRAKE BIBLE MOVIE#
Its hero - to be played in an upcoming movie by the extraordinarily creepy illusionist Chris Angel of cable TV fame - is a magician who hypnotizes people who then have hallucinations. It's a very old strip, going back 75 years. a plant with a forked root, resembling a man, thought to have magic powers a narcotic prepared from its root.īefore I came across one of the strangest conspiracy theories, which claims that Jesus did not die when he was crucified, but instead was high on an anaesthetic herb called mandrake that makes a person who takes it appear to be dead, the only connection I had to the word mandrake was from one of those "who reads this stuff?" comic strips which is never, ever funny, called Mandrake the Magician.
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