My Inquiry

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Right, my bad. I can't reference the Bible here. But Roman reports state that He was called the Messiah, which we can take to mean that He did indeed exist and evidently performed wonders for people to start calling Him Messiah and to later go through persecution and martyrdom for Him.

Read what Tacitus really said. Messiah isn't the word he used, but christos or chrestos. And as for Josephus, half of what he supposedly wrote is a known forgery. And both of them didn't include the walking on water or raising the dead part. That's exclusively bible.

That's Tacitus

Christus, the founder of the name, was Put to death by Pontius Pilate, procurator of Judea in the reign Of Tiberius: but the pernicious superstition, repressed for a time Broke out again, not only through Judea, where the mischief Originated, but through the city of Rome also, where all things Hideous and shameful from every part of the world find their Center and become popular