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A chat on subreddit /r/NoStupidQuestions
human
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.
gpt
Yeah, people forget that for the bulk of his ministry, Jesus was just another charismatic, apocalyptic preacher. There was absolutely loads of them around. It does seem very likely that there was a Q Source for the gospels, though, so maybe that was more contemporary. We'll probably never know.

Edit: "Life" to "ministry" as per the comment below.