What were Jesus and early Christians like?

[GrandizerII]

There is one original story: What is now known as gMark. He could not be bothered with a nativity story so later traditions grew up about it which were incorporated into the fanfics which are matty and luke.

But there is something about gMark's Jesus being from Nazareth rather than Bethlehem that points to the likelihood of a historical Jesus rather than a mythical one. The later nativity stories were attempts to fix that awkwardness.

I'm not saying Jesus must have existed. For all I know, you could be right at the end. But history (especially 2000 and more years go) is a very tricky thing to reconstruct in a perfectly satisfactory manner.