Alex O'Connor

What's the relationship between Jesus and John the Baptist?

So I'd love to see them meet.

But it's hard to know.

I mean, you've surely got an answer for this question yourself.

And when you don't have documents.

I mean, because when history is recent enough, you can kind of put yourself there by reading the books.

Obviously, there's going to be bias and misreporting and stuff like that, and you've got to be careful.

But if you go far back enough, especially into ancient history, you've got one little shred.

Some of our most well-known, famous historical figures from antiquity, we only know they exist from maybe one, maybe two sources.

It's like a scrap of papyrus somewhere with a name scribbled on it.

And yet these people were so important.

So I think it would have to be an ancient event.

Yes, yes.

I'd fail miserably at archery or anything like that.

Do you think if you went back, you would find Arjuna on a literal battlefield?

being advised by an actual deity?

If you went back and you found there were no such historical event, or maybe there were a historical battle, but the conversation that's had throughout the Bhagavad Gita

is a fictional one, would that trouble you?

Because for me, I'd still quite like the Bhagavad Gita.

I'd find it worth reading.