The only sources for the life of Jesus of Nazareth are in the canonical gospels (or the gospels that were included in the authorised version of the New Testament). We have no contemporary, eyewitness testimony from the time that he lived and preached in Israel. The earliest gospel, Mark, was written approximately in the year 65 or 70 CE , followed by Matthew, Luke, and John. The letters of Paul, the earliest evidence of the Christian movement, were written in the 50's and 60's CE but contain very little in terms of the “historical Jesus." This is a synopsis of the events reported in the four gospels:
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