The historicity of Jesus is the debate "on the fringes of scholarship" and in popular culture regarding whether Jesus historically existed or was a purely mythological figure. Mainstream New Testament
Jesus as the Good Shepherd; middle of 3rd-century.
The crucifixion of Jesus as depicted by Mannerist painter Bronzino (c. 1545)
The Baptism of Jesus by Juan Fernández Navarrete (16th century)
An 11th-century Byzantine manuscript containing the opening of the Gospel of Luke
The Roman historian Suetonius mentions early Christians and may refer to Jesus Christ in his work Lives of the Twelve Caesars. One passage in the biography of the Emperor Claudius Divus Claudius 25, r
A 1540 copy of Lives of the Twelve Caesars by Suetonius
A coin issued by Emperor Nerva (AD 96–98) reads fisci Judaici calumnia sublata, "abolition of malicious prosecution in connection with the Jewish tax"