The Case for Christ
A Journalist's Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus
Chapter One
THE EYEWITNESS
EVIDENCE
Can the Biographies of Jesus Be Trusted?
When I first met shy and soft-spoken Leo Carter, he was a
seventeen-year-old veteran of Chicago's grittiest neighborhood. His
testimony had put three killers in prison. And he was still carrying a
.38-caliber slug in his skull-a grisly reminder of a horrific saga that
began when he witnessed Elijah Baptist gun down a local grocer.
Leo and a friend, Leslie Scott, were playing basketball when they
saw Elijah, then a sixteen-year-old delinquent with thirty arrests on
his rap sheet, slay Sam Blue outside his grocery store.
Leo had known the grocer since childhood. "When we didn't have
any food, he'd give us some," Leo explained to me in a quiet voice.
"So when I went to the hospital and they said he was dead, I knew I'd
have to testify about what I saw."
Eyewitness testimony is powerful. One of the most dramatic ... read full excerpt from: The Case for Christ - Student Edition: A Journalist's Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus ebook
