Thread:GreyStark/@comment-28288412-20170506220152/@comment-27404492-20170507170146

Those people chose to believe in God, they weren't forced. All God said was Be a a certain place at a certain time and you'll see a miracle. Those people chose to go there. Their free will wasn't violated.

I must've not seen the that reference to the wind then. But it says in the same chapter that there was three inches of water. Now I doubt that wind could get rid of that, dry the ground and the people's clothes in ten minutes.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/25/jesus-crucifixion-date-possible_n_1546351.html

As for the atheists in the crowd, there are plenty of eyewitnesses who'll say that they were atheists before the miracle. A famous example is the baron of Alvaiazere. One eyewitness was a priest (he was ten at the time) who was about ten miles away when it happened. According to him there was a atheist in his town who was making fun of the people who had gone to see the miracle. When he saw the sun that same guy dropped to his knees and started praying for forgiveness