Scripture: Mark 6:3; Galatians 1:19; Mark 15
The Gospels present Jesus as a teacher and wonder-worker, executed under Pilate, whose brother James later led the Jerusalem church.
The Jewish historian Flavius Josephus mentions Jesus twice in his Jewish Antiquities. In Book 18 (the '') he describes Jesus as a wise man and doer of 'surprising deeds', condemned to the cross by Pilate, whose followers did not abandon him. In Book 20 he records the stoning of 'James, the brother of Jesus who was called Christ' in 62 CE.
