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Virtually all scholars of antiquity agree that Jesus existed. [8] [9] [31] Historian Michael Grant asserts that if conventional standards of historical criticism are applied to the New Testament, "we can no more reject Jesus' existence than we can reject the existence of a mass of pagan personages whose reality as historical figures is never questioned."
The date of birth of Jesus of Nazareth is not stated in the gospels or in any secular text, but most scholars assume a date of birth between 6 BC and 4 BC. [1] Two main methods have been used to estimate the year of the birth of Jesus: one based on the accounts of his birth in the gospels with reference to King Herod's reign, and another based on subtracting his stated age of "about 30 years ...
The Trial of Jesus: a study in the gospels and Jewish historiographyfrom 1770 to the present day Leiden: Brill; Chilton, Bruce, Evans, Craig A. and Neusner, Jacob ed. (2002). The Missing Jesus: Rabbinic Judaism and the New Testament. ISBN 0-391-04183-5. Cohen, Shaye J.D. (1988). From the Maccabees to the Mishnah ISBN 0-664-25017-3; Cohen, Shaye ...
Thallus, of whom very little is known, and none of whose writings survive, wrote a history allegedly around the middle to late first century CE, to which Eusebius referred. Julius Africanus, writing c. 221 CE, links a reference in the third book of the History to the period of darkness described in the crucifixion accounts in three of the Gospels.
Jesus of Nazareth. New York City: Doubleday. ISBN 978-0-385-52341-7. Browne, Sylvia (November 7, 2006). The Mystical Life of Jesus: An Uncommon Perspective on the Life of Christ. New York, NY: Doubleday. ISBN 978-0525950011. Browne, Sylvia (November 6, 2007). The Two Marys: The Hidden History of the Mother and Wife of Jesus. USA: Dutton Adult.
Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965), a historian of theology, presented an important critical review of the history of the search for Jesus's life in The Quest of the Historical Jesus – From Reimarus to Wrede (1906, 1st ed.), denouncing the subjectivity of the various writers who injected their own preferences in Jesus's character.
In the Mission Discourse, Jesus instructs the twelve apostles who are named in Matthew 10:2–3 to carry no belongings as they travel from city to city and preach. [ 44 ] [ 45 ] Separately in Luke 10:1–24 relates the Seventy Disciples , in which Jesus appoints a larger number of disciples and sent them out in pairs with the Missionary's ...
The most famous version of the Great Commission is in Matthew 28:16–20, where on a mountain in Galilee Jesus calls on his followers to make disciples of and baptize all nations in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Paul's conversion on the Road to Damascus is first recorded in Acts 9:13–16.