Josephus and I: An Intellectual's Account

"Now there was about this time Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call Him a man, for he was a doer of wonderful works -- a teacher of such men who receive the truth with pleasure. He drew unto Him both many of the Jews and many of the Gentiles. He was the Christ. And when Pilate, at the suggestion of the principal men among us, had condemned Him to the cross, those that loved Him at the first did not forsake Him, for He appeared to them alive again the third day, as the divine prophets had foretold these ten thousand other wonderful things concerning Him; and the tribe of Christians, so named for Him, are not extinct at this day." -Josephus Antiquities 18.63-64


Josephus was not a Christian. He was not a follower of Christ. He was merely a historian who wrote things down. It is this fact, that he did not know Jesus as I know Him, that makes the above statement even more powerful. Truth is truth.