{"id":2388,"date":"2025-03-29T16:58:43","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T16:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/?p=2388"},"modified":"2025-04-12T16:12:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T15:12:24","slug":"the-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/?p=2388","title":{"rendered":"The Sources"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Three renowned scientists\u2014Papaia, Banani, Ravioli\u2014and their assistant Igor work at the NASAL observatory.<br>Ravioli accidentally bought a book, which turns out to be very interesting.<br>They are discussing Ravioli\u2019s book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Banani: You said fifteen sources from less than a century after, and among them, even hostile sources? With this kind of evidence, I don\u2019t think any historian in the world would deny that Jesus ever existed!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ravioli: Exactly! In addition to the four gospels, we have the following non-Christian sources:<br>In 73, Mara Bar-Serapion, a Syrian philosopher, mentions him in a letter to his son.<br>Around 93, Josephus Flavius, a Jewish historian, mentions him in his book Antiquities of the Jews, chapter 3, verse 3.<br>In 116, Tacitus, a Roman historian, mentions him in The Annals, passage 15.44.<br>Around 150, the Talmud, a collection of Jewish books, mentions him in Sanhedrin, 43a.<br>Around 250, Lucian of Samosata, a Greek satirical writer, mentions him in his story The Death of the Pilgrim.<br>Today, the death of Jesus on the cross is a historical certainty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Banani has forced the suitcase zippers too much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Banani: Damn! All the zippers broke!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83e\udd23\ud83e\udd23\ud83e\udd23<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Papaia: Quick! Let\u2019s go, the taxi is already coming!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They run outside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Igor: At least now customs won\u2019t even need to ask us to open the suitcases\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83e\udd23\ud83e\udd23\ud83e\udd23<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/?p=2384\">Previous<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/?p=2391\">Next<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three renowned scientists\u2014Papaia, Banani, Ravioli\u2014and their assistant Igor work at the NASAL observatory.Ravioli accidentally bought a book, which turns out to be very interesting.They are discussing Ravioli\u2019s book. Banani: You said fifteen sources from less than a century after, and among them, even hostile sources? With this kind of evidence, I don\u2019t think any historian &#8230; <a title=\"The Sources\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/?p=2388\" aria-label=\"Read more about The Sources\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-episode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2388"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4361,"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388\/revisions\/4361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}