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Eusebius quotes Josephus on Jesus

Connection type: direct quotation · 2 passages

Eusebius reproduces Josephus' Testimonium passage almost word for word — 'a wise man… a doer of wonderful works… He was the Christ' — as an outside testimony to Jesus, in the wording of the library's Josephus translation.

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“7. After relating these things concerning John, he makes mention of our Saviour in the same work, in the following words: And there lived at that time Jesus, a wise man, if indeed it be proper to call him a man. For he was a doer of wonderful works, and a teacher of such men as receive the truth in gladness. And he attached to himself many of the Jews, and many also of the Greeks. He was the Christ.”

Eusebius of Caesarea — Ecclesiastical History (Church History) · Chapter 11. Testimonies in Regard to John the Baptist and Christ.

“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 as receive the truth with pleasure. He drew over to 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 amongst 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 and ten thousand other wonderful things concerning him. And the tribe of Christians, so named from him, are not extinct at this day.”

Josephus — Antiquities of the Jews, Book 18 · Chapter 3

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History & historiography, Translation & transmission

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