The Jimmy Akin Podcast | Episode 044 (July 28, 2025)

In this episode, Jimmy interacts with YouTuber Dan McClellan, who supports a skeptical school of scholarship and regularly makes videos critiquing people with traditional Catholic positions.

Jimmy looks at Dan mocking the claim that the Crucifixion of Jesus is “the best-established fact about the ancient world” and Dan’s rejection of April 3, A.D. 33 as the most likely date for the Crucifixion.

How much truth is there in what Dan says? And how much is Dan criticizing things he doesn’t know about?

Timecodes
00:00 – Coming Up
00:06 – Intro
00:27 – Introducing Dan McClellan
02:46 – Claims About Jesus’ Crucifixion
03:20 – Claim #1: “The Best-Established Fact of the Ancient World”
13:49 – Claim #2: Based on a Lunar Eclipse
26:22 – Conclusion
27:41 – Closing/Outro
28:34 – End