Jesus Christ died when he was about thirty-three years old.  Other than the fact that he died as a relatively young man, on the surface there seems to be nothing unusual about that statement.

The reason why that seems to be a routine statement is because death comes to everyone.  When the Irish writer, George Bernard Shaw, completed a statistical study on the subject of death, he said he came to this firm conclusion:  "One out of one people dies."

Normally that is why biographers seldom spend much time on the deaths of their subjects.  However, when we come to Jesus, this rule is broken because about one-third of the "gospels", which is the closest thing we have to a biography of Jesus, is devoted not to his life, but to his death.

Now we know that Jesus was totally different in his bir…