Living in the Time of Jesus

Jesus is said to have overturned the tables of moneychangers in the Temple. But who were these people, and whose money were they changing? Host Arne Kislenko opens a window into how people made ends meet 2,000 years ago.

When you got sick in the first century, what did you do about it? Host Arne Kislenko investigates the many sides of ancient health care to discover what people in Jesus’ time knew—and didn’t know—about medicine.

Two thousand years ago, temple guards and soldiers arrested Jesus, setting in motion the most infamous trial of all time. Host Arne Kislenko moves through modern Jerusalem to pick up clues about what law and order looked like in the first century.