How do they know these steps are the ones Jesus walked upon like they just said on the history channel?

Answer 1

They can make an educated guess based on the history of where he taught and what were the known travel routes of the time.

As to the previous responder whose seemingly snide comment "They don't. They can't even prove that there is a Jesus," well let's just say that he is living in some fantasy world where anything from the past cannot be known. How sad to live in such a state. Can't prove that there is a Jesus? Apparently can't prove that there was a Roman Empire. Can't prove that there was a Socrates. Can't prove that there was any of hundreds of thousands of people who have lived and died over the millenia.

Answer 2

Jerusalem is not a big city, and through written and oral accounts you know that one route or another is the one Jesus took. Most of the Crucifictions that took place within the city limits took the same path ways to Golgotha. Basicly through oral and written history historians can make a conjecture thjat Jesus would have walked here, and if you lived in a town for most of your life wouldn't you have walked over almost all points of a given city?
The written facts can be attributed to several historians of the first century, namely Josephus a Jewish historian who lived in the time period of Jesus. He did not recognize Jesus as a son of God, or Messiah, but a person who did good works in Jerusalem at this time.

Answer 3

Reportedly there was an oral tradition in the Holy Land at the time St. Helena came to Jerusalem in the 4th century.


How accurate this was, is unknown. Most people have played a version of the game we used to call "Telephone" where people sit in a circle, one whispers something to the person to his or her left , and then it goes around the room in that direction until it comes back to the originator, who tells how the statement changed as it traveled around the circle.

Sometimes there is quite a big change.

Oral traditions may have changed like this, or they could stay pretty accurate, it depends.

Information of this kind is hard to verify. An example of this is that, during a renovation of the Vatican, they excavated underground and found the remains of a man, and the materials buried with him were dated to the first century. Tradition held that Peter was buried under that altar, having been interned by his friends after he was crucified (upside down) on Vatican Hill.

Answer 4

It's a figure of speech!! They don't know the actual steps, but if Jesus went from Nazareth to Jerusalem, there are only so many ways to do that. The roads of the time probably went around hills rather than over them.

I could go to Harvard and walk in the steps of JFK, not because I know exactly where he stepped, but because in walking around I'd be bound to walk where he'd been.

Answer 5

Yeah. I don't know why they make that claim. In reality, they take what they know, and conclude that it may be possible, or theres a probable factor to the idea that he walked there. But of course, no one can be sure.

Answer 6

They don't. They can't even prove that there is a Jesus.