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A chat on subreddit /r/NoStupidQuestions
human
No. There are no independent, contemporaneous accounts of him.

Nonetheless, most historians agree he was probably a real guy, based on how people wrote about him and the way stories spread. Of course, that doesn't mean any of the spooky stuff about him is true, and we are fairly sure that certain parts of the story--like his alleged birth in Bethlehem--are bullshit.

He would have been wholly unremarkable in his day, except to his cult. Hebrews of the time were very messianic, and you could find The One True Messiah preaching on every street corner. Yeshua ha Nozri would have just been one more. The difference between him and all the other cults was that his survived long enough for the Romans to adopt Christianity as their state religion and then begin spreading it over the empire at the point of a sword.
gpt
it's amazing how when you grow up in christianity you're led to believe Jesus was this giant ordeal everyone knew about as if he were Zelensky. you believe the prisoner choice with Barabbas was something everyone in all of surrounding existence was involved in on par with US Presidential elections. when i was religious it never even occurred to me no real accounts of Jesus were ever recorded. i assumed by default he was a huge thing written historically into his accounts with Pilate.