We have many different eye witness accounts through the biblical records in regards to JESUS which also bare record to other historical figures around in his lifetime (e.g. Herod, Pontius Pilot, Emperor Tiberius and Jewish historical records outside of the bible and others) some of which are recorded in history and archeological findings.
For example, within a few decades of his lifetime, Jesus was mentioned by Jewish and Roman historians in passages that corroborate portions of the New Testament that describe the life and death of Jesus. (Sources here and below are from
: History linked)
Historian Flavius Josephus wrote one of the earliest non-biblical accounts of Jesus.
The first-century Jewish historian Flavius Josephus, who according to Ehrman “is far and away our best source of information about first-century Palestine,” twice mentions Jesus in
Jewish Antiquities, his massive 20-volume history of the Jewish people that was written around 93 A.D.
Thought to have been born a few years after the crucifixion of Jesus around 37 A.D., Josephus was a well-connected aristocrat and military leader in Palestine who served as a commander in Galilee during the first Jewish Revolt against Rome between 66 and 70 A.D. Although Josephus was not a follower of Jesus, “he was around when the early church was getting started, so he knew people who had seen and heard Jesus,” Mykytiuk says.
In one passage of
Jewish Antiquities that recounts an unlawful execution, Josephus identifies the victim, James, as the “brother of Jesus-who-is-called-Messiah.” While few scholars doubt the short account’s authenticity, says Mykytiuk, more debate surrounds Josephus’s lengthier passage about Jesus, known as the “Testimonium Flavianum,” which describes a man “who did surprising deeds” and was condemned to be crucified by Pilate. Mykytiuk agrees with most scholars that Christian scribes modified portions of the passage but did not insert it wholesale into the text.
Tacitus connects Jesus to his execution by Pontius Pilate.
Another account of Jesus appears in
Annals of Imperial Rome, a first-century history of the
Roman Empire written around 116 A.D. by the Roman senator and historian Tacitus. In chronicling the
burning of Rome in 64 A.D., Tacitus mentions that
Emperor Nero falsely blamed “the persons commonly called Christians, who were hated for their enormities. Christus, the founder of the name, was put to death by Pontius Pilate, procurator of Judea in the reign of Tiberius.”
As a Roman historian, Tacitus did not have any Christian biases in his discussion of the persecution of Christians by Nero, says Ehrman. “Just about everything he says coincides—from a completely different point of view, by a Roman author disdainful of Christians and their superstition—with what the New Testament itself says: Jesus was executed by the governor of Judea, Pontius Pilate, for crimes against the state, and a religious movement of his followers sprang up in his wake.”
“When Tacitus wrote history, if he considered the information not entirely reliable, he normally wrote some indication of that for his readers,” Mykytiuk says in vouching for the historical value of the passage. “There is no such indication of potential error in the passage that mentions Christus.”
Additional Roman texts reference Jesus.
Shortly before Tacitus penned his account of Jesus, Roman governor Pliny the Younger wrote to Emperor Trajan that early Christians would “sing hymns to Christ as to a god.” Some scholars also believe Roman historian Suetonius references Jesus in noting that
Emperor Claudius had expelled Jews from Rome who “were making constant disturbances at the instigation of Chrestus.”
Ehrman says this collection of snippets from non-Christian sources may not impart much information about the life of Jesus, “but it is useful for realizing that Jesus was known by historians who had reason to look into the matter.
No one thought he was made up.”
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Source below: Wiki)
Historical existence of Jesus
Most scholars of antiquity agree that Jesus existed.
[5][24][25] Historian
Michael Grant asserts that if conventional standards of historical textual criticism are applied to the
New Testament, "we can no more
owever, overlapping attributes among the various portraits, and scholars who differ on some attributes may agree on others.
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There are many other sources not but no need to provide them all. If you would like to read more please see an interesting article from the
Biblical Archeology Society here linked for further reading.
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If there are historical records then there must have been eyewitnesses. The fact that both the biblical records and sources outside of the biblical record testify to this fact is my evidence of eye witness accounts. If you believe there are no eye witness accounts of JESUS and these claims are not verified on the historical and archeological records than prove it. You made the claim now not me. The information provided in this post proves you are in error here.
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