Historical Evidence of Jesus Outside The Bible- Top 10

Historical Evidence of Jesus Outside The Bible- Top 10

The gospels aren't the only ones that are reliable accounts of the life of Jesus. there are many other non-Christian descriptions of Jesus from the late 1st to 10^th century. Welcome back to another article about Historical Evidences of Jesus Outside the Bible. We have like 25000 Manuscripts of Bible which dates around the period and after few 100years after Jesus Lived. But few people doesn't count those historical manuscripts as evidence. I don't know why? What i think is they want to deny the existence of Jesus at any cost. So in this article I provide, 10 of the biggest evidences of Jesus outside of the bible. now we're going to be looking at some non-Christian pagan accounts, as well as some non-Christian Jewish accounts. so let's get started with this article and look into the existence of Jesus outside of the bible.

(10) Thallus 52 A.D. Thallus is one of the oldest secular writers who mentioned Jesus in his writings he is so ancient that his work doesn't exist anymore. but you see Julius Afrikaners quoted his writing where he tried to explain away the darkness occurring at Jesus's crucifixion. in his quote he described that Thallus explained how the world was surrounded by a fearful darkness as well as a massive earthquake happened during Jesus crucifixion. From Thallus's available work we can conclude that Jesus lived he was crucified and that there was an earthquake and darkness at the point of his crucifixion.

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(9) Tacitus 56 to 120 A.D. Cornelius Tacitus was a well-known ancient historian known for his analysis and examination of historical documents. and he explained the existence of Jesus in his annals of 116 a.d. Tacitus described emperor Nero's response to the great fire in Rome and Nero's claim that the Christians were to blame for it. according to him Jesus lived in Judea, he was crucified under Pontius Pilate and he had followers who were persecuted for their faith in him.

(8) Mara Barcerapion 70 A.D. after 70ad a Syrian philosopher named mara barcerapion wrote for his son where he compared the life and persecution of Jesus with that of other philosophers who were persecuted for their ideas. mara bar seraphian called him the wise king, and he described how Jews murdered their wise king and after which their kingdom was abolished. he's also said that god avenged those men and according to Mara Barcerapian's work, Jesus was a wise and influential man who died for his beliefs. the Jewish leadership was also somehow responsible for Jesus's death and Jesus followers adopted his beliefs and lived their lives accordingly.

 (7) Phlegon 80- 140 A.D. Like Phallus Julius Africanus also mentioned a historian named Phlegon. who wrote a chronicle of history around 140 a.d. Flagon also focused on the darkness surrounding jesus's crucifixion and according to Flagon, Jesus had the ability to predict the future pretty accurately and he was crucified under the reign of Tiberius Caesar. He also says that Jesus showed his wounds after he was resurrected to people that he came in contact with.

(6) Pliny the younger 61- 113 A.D. The early Christians were also described in the early non-christian history. Pliny the younger in a letter to the Roman emperor trojan he described the lifestyles of early Christians. Pliny explained how the Christians sang a hymn to Jesus Christ as a god in alternate verses and took an oath to refrain from all sorts of evil deeds. the early description of the first christians documents several things like the first Christians believed Jesus was god, and they have held a high moral code as well as early followers met regularly to worship Jesus.

(5) Lucian of Samosata 115- 200 A.D. Lucian was a greek satirist who spoke sarcastically of Jesus and Christians. but in the process he actually affirmed that they were real people and never referred to them as fictional characters or anything like that. lucian he explained how the christians worshiped a man who introduced their novel rights and was crucified on this account according to his work. we can conclude that Jesus taught about repentance and the family of god. those teachings were then quickly adopted by jesus's followers.

(4) Celsius 175 A.D. celsius was also quite antagonistic to the claims of the gospels in the bible. but in his criticism he unknowingly affirmed and reinforced the biblical authors and their content. so celsius he confirmed that Jesus was able to perform miracles. according to celsius's writings Jesus had an earthly father who was a carpenter and he possessed unusual magical powers and also he says that jesus claimed to be god. Celsius's writings is extensive and he alluded to 80 different biblical quotes and this would of course confirm their early appearance in history.

(3) Josephus 37-101 A.D. coming to the ancient hostile Jewish sources. Josephus is a Jewish source right and Josephus wrote in detail about Jesus in his antiquities of the Jews in 93 a.d. under the rule of roman emperor Vespasian, Josephus was allowed to write a history of the Jews where he wrote about Jesus as a wise man and the messiah. there are many ancient versions of Josephus's writings but we can conclude that from them that Jesus lived in Palestine the area known as Palestine and he was a wise man and he was also a teacher he did amazing things and he was accused by the Jews and crucified under Pilate and had followers who were then called Christians.

(2) Jewish Talmud 400 to 700 A.D. in the Talmudic writing Jesus was referred to as Balaam benstada or a certain one. and according to the Talmudic passages Jesus practiced magic and he led Israel astray. Jesus was stoned and hanged because he practiced sorcery and he enticed Israel to go astray and no one came in his favor to plead so he was hanged. Now Jewish Talmud states that Jesus had magical powers he led the jews away from their beliefs he had disciples who were martyred for their faith and was executed on the day before Passover. yeah sounds very much like the accounts that were recorded in the bible just from a little bit of a different perspective though.

(1) Toledot Yeshu 1000 A.D. The Toledot Yeshu is a medieval Jewish retelling of the life of Jesus that is completely anti-Christian. the toledot Yeshua attempts to explain away the miracles of Jesus and to deny the virgin birth. So the text of the Toledot Yeshu does confirm many elements of the New Testament writings like Jesus claiming to be the messiah and Jesus healing those who had disabilities. he also said that Isaiah foretold of his life and also that he was worshiped as a god and he was arrested by the Jews beaten with rods given vinegar to drink wore a crown of thorns rode into Jerusalem on a donkey and he was betrayed by a man named yuda Iscariot which is judas iscariot in English and he had followers who claimed that he was resurrected from the grave and ascended into heaven.

Conclusion: So we can see that many elements of the biblical record are confirmed by these accounts in spite of the fact that they were written against Jesus and his followers. so that brings us to the end of this episode guys let me know down below in the comment section do you believe in the existence of Jesus and if so what about the existence of Jesus.