The earliest reference to Christ outside the New Testament is in Thallus, a Palestinian historian writing about A.D. 52, who spoke of the “darkness which accompanied the crucifixion of Christ.”

There is a Syriac manuscript in the British Museum (from some time after A.D. 73) by Mara bar Serapion that asks: “What advantage did the Jews gain from executing their king? It was just after that their kingdom was abolished.”

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