Josephus on Jesus

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Josephus was a first-century Jewish historian, general of Galilee during the First Jewish–Roman War, and relative of the high priestly families of the Second Temple who provided external information on some people and events found in the New Testament. Josephus was the military governor of Galilee, which is where Jesus ministered. He lived near Jesus's hometown of Nazareth for a time, and kept contact with groups such as the Sanhedrin and Ananus ben Ananus, who were involved in the trials of Jesus and his brother James. He wrote much about Galilee and its inhabitants in his autobiography The Life of Flavius Josephus, which was an appendix to Antiquities of the Jews. The extant manuscripts of Antiquities of the Jews, written c. 93–94, contain two references to Jesus of Nazareth and one reference to John the Baptist. The first and most extensive reference to Jesus in the Antiquities, found in Book 18, states that Jesus was the Messiah and a wise teacher who was crucified by Pontius Pilate...

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