It’s interesting that we have little to no primary source evidence regarding Jesus and his ministry. We have the New Testament gospels but those are more like stories told from a third person perspective and we’re not written until after Jesus died.

On the other hand, if we look at other religious figures, we have plenty of primary source evidence on the prophet Muhammad who ran a country not just a church or the Buddha aka Siddhartha Gautama.

Jesus is arguably one of the most important figures in history since many historical events that occurred were inspired by him like the conversion of Constantine, the crusades, the Anno Domini system, the way we measure dates is also based on his birth and death.

Yet you’d think someone so important would have primary source evidence discussing how amazing he really was.

The first New Testament writings were generally accepted to be the Pauline epistles which were written around 50AD. About 20 years after Jesus supposedly died but Paul includes little biographical information about Jesus and says that he did not know Jesus personally yet he did know James the brother of Jesus.

The gospels give information about Jesus’s birth and death but leave out most of his life during his teenage years and young adult years.