“Testimonium Flavianum” of Josephus

Now Jesus, a wise man, was living around this time—if indeed one should properly call him a man. For he was a performer of incredible works, a teacher of those men who receive the truth with pleasure. He drew to himself both many Jews and many among the Greeks. He was the Messiah. And when Pilate, at the suggestion of the prominent men among us, condemned him to the cross, those who had loved him from the beginning did not forsake him, for he appeared to them alive again on the third day, as the divine prophets had foretold both these things and ten thousand other marvels concerning him. And the tribe of the Christians, so named after him, still exists to this day.

Translated by William Whiston, adapted byAaron Samuels.