So the question is: Was Jesus a real man? Or is Jesus only talked about in the Bible?

So I went to the Public Library and walked down those rows and rows of books and found a book by Cornelius Tacitus, in it he says

"Christus, the founder of the name, was put to death by Pontius Pilate, procurator of Judea in the reign of Tiberius." Annals XV.44

And when I saw this for the first time my skin crawled and I got chills down my spine Because right there for the first time in my life I was seeing the physical evidence in something other than the Bible that Jesus Christ really lived and walked on this earth. Jesus Christ really lived, he really lived, do you understand that, he walked on earth, he had legs, he had hair, he had blood and flesh, he was like me and you!! He really lived!


Here is another reference, although some claim it was added later by forgerers, in a book by Flavius Josephus (but then they would also have had to add the second reference in XX 9:1 where Josephus talks about James the brother of Jesus being executed).

Josephus wrote:

There was about this time a wise man named Jesus - if it is lawful to call him a man, for he was a doer of wonderful works - a teacher of the type of men who enjoy hearing the truth. He drew many of the Jews and Gentiles to him; he was the Christ. When Pilate, at the suggestion of the Jewish leaders, condemned him to the cross, those that loved him at first did not forsake him, for he appeared to them alive the third day, as the divine prophets had foretold along with many other wonderful things concerning him. The tribe of Christians named for him still exists today............

And here was a non-Christian, an unbiased historian telling us this!

But that wasn't the only occurrence.

Suetoneous talks about Jesus, Plinius Secundus talks about Jesus, Thallus talks about Jesus, and the Jewish Talmuds talk about Jesus.

Flavius Josephus Antiquities, xviii 33, & XX 9:1; Cornelius Tacitus Annals XV.44; Lucian of Samosata The Passing Peregrinus; Suetonius Life of Claudius; Plinius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) Epistles X.96.


So there it is, non biased historians, saying that Jesus did live and he was crucified by Pilate during the reign of Tiberius Caesar! Isn't funny that that is exactly what the Bible has been saying for the last 2000 years!

There's the proof that Jesus was a real man, not a metaphor, not a legend, not a fairy tale. He was a real man, real flesh and blood, real as you and me.

Rev. Michael T
Soldier for Christ