First let me reassure Jim Lieb that I'm not an Islamic mischief maker as he slyly suggests but have arrived at my viewpoint thro' curiosity not animosity! Second, we don't need a time machine to go back to 30CE because it's obvious from the very first Christian documents (the early epistles) that their writers knew nothing of the Jesus described in the later gospels (which, btw, were NOT written by Jesus' companions) and nor did any of the Jewish historians. If Jesus had really done stupendous miracles or drawn crowds of thousands which made him "famous thro' all Syria" the early Christians especially MUST have noticed him but they can't even tell us he was tried by Pilate in Jerusalem! I think this must make us seriously doubt the veracity of the gospels.
David H Lewis