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>The activities of a religious fanatic who moved around Galilee and Judaea preaching a gospel of peace and salvation, was said to have performed miracles, was followed by crowds of thousands of adoring disciples, and within the space of a few hours invaded the hallowed grounds of the Temple, was hauled up before the Sanhedrin, tried by King Herod, interrogated by Pontius Pilate and crucified, all amid public tumult, made no impression on history-writers of the period.”
>And aside from all that, even if we assume that Josephus wrote part of the Testimonium and it went completely ignored by the church fathers for all that time, there is no possibility that this could have come from a Roman report because any Roman report would have focused entirely on the fact that Jesus disrupted the Temple festivities during the Cleansing of the Temple, which is described as the cause of Jesus' crucifixion in the first three gospels. Josephus consistently denounced all such discontents in his writings. The Testimonium even fails to provide any context for Jesus' death, saying only that the principal Jews executed a wise, truthful, inclusive, and beloved teacher for no particular reason. If there is an authentic core to the Testimonium, it could only be the synopsis of a floating gospel fiction like that of Luke 24:19-24 which Josephus would have passed along as history, just as he relayed apocryphal miracle stories about Moses as history