Tacitus

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I see these multiple points of testimony very well corroborated they were martyred and nothing to suggest otherwise so that's why I believe they were martyred. Claiming otherwise needs evidence.

So you have a bunch of unsubstantiated claims that all agree with each other, from people with a vested interest in that being so... and a shifting of the burden of proof. Gotcha.

And the reason why I believe they saw Jesus alive from the dead is because Paul wrote he spent 15 days with Peter, with John and James the brother of Jesus. They all had the same gospel message of resurrection and as eyewitnesses.

Paul never met Jesus. So this is just a "friend of a friend..." claim, again from people with something to gain from propagating the claim. I can get accounts of that caliber from people who say they've been abducted by aliens, are you convinced by that? You can at least meet the abductees today, after all.

And if you're not convinced, how does a story that's a second hand account, that's unverifiable, and with worse evidence backing it up, somehow become more plausible?