Existence of Jesus

[Mark]

The fact that it ended in a conviction of death and that he was supposedly crucified would have made it an official case and would have warranted its appearance on Roman records.There was also rumours of Jesus being convicted of sedition but none of this is evident in the historical record.

Well as I pointed out, the vast, vast majority of Roman legal records have been lost. Only very isolated examples have survived. Also it is not clear that Jesus was tried in a Roman court, which would have been quite unusual for a non-citizen outside of Italy, during this particular time. There were local, Judaic courts in which any trial of Jesus would probably have taken place. The account only says that at some point, he appeared before the Prefect. If this happened it was probably an interview for possible lenience. There is indeed evidence that a man named Pontius Pilatus, or possibly Pileatus, was Prefect of Judea at this time.

Personally I doubt that Jesus ever did appear before the Prefect, which would have been quite an honor, but perhaps it did happen. Jesus during his life would have been a significant figure for Jews, a nonentity to Romans. More likely, if Jesus saw a Roman official at all, it was a clerk.

Death was not a particularly unusual punishment in Roman law, by the way. It was the punishment for most serious crimes. There was no regular prison system. Crucifixion was a standard punishment for sedition, which appears to have been Jesus' alleged crime.