Where did the Jesus myth come from?

[Cyberman]

No. Suetonius and Pliny mention "christians" ( or chrestians. in Suetonius' case). None of them ever heard of fucking jesus.

"As the Jews were making constant disturbances at the instigation of Chrestus, he expelled them from Rome." Life of Claudius by Suetonius

This confirms the accuracy of Luke's account in Acts 18:2 "There he met a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had ordered all Jews to leave Rome."

"Punishment by Nero was inflicted on the CHRISTians, a class of men given to a new and mischievous superstition." Life of Clausius by Suetonius. (emphasis mine).

Suetonius wrote about CHRISTians in the Roman Capital 20 years after the crucifixion. He certainly knew that CHRISTians were being punished for their beliefs. If he knew what a CHRISTian was he certainly knew about CHRIST Jesus.

Suetonius was writing about the Life of Claudius, not Jewish or Christian history, so these references are extremely fortuitous and significant, They can't rationally be shrugged of without reason.

In Epistles X.96 Pliny the Younge, Roman governor in Bithynia AD112 wrote to Emperor Trajan to seek advice as to how to treat the christians. He was concerned that they chose death rather than bow to a statue of the emperor or "curse CHRIST, which a genuine CHRISTian cannot be induced to do." Text at: http://www.ancient-literature.com/rome_p...e_X96.html

Another very strong bit of evidence is that there were a lot of people willing to die for the Christ.

Obviously, both Suetonius and Pliny knew about Jesus Christ. There's the data.

Note also that if these people referred to "Jesus", there were too many around to differentiate, hence they write of Christ and Christians.

But no-one's arguing for the existence of xtians. We know only too well that they exist and have done so since at least the second century CE. Presenting evidence of the historical existence of xtians as though it's evidence for the historicity of JC is no different from producing children's letters to Santa as evidence for the Jolly Old Elf himself.