Historian Michael Grant asks a thought  provoking question How comes it that, through all the Gospel traditions without exception, there comes a remarkably firmly  drawn portrait of an attractive young man moving freely about among women of all sorts, including the decidedly disreputable, without a trace of sentimentality, unnaturalness, or prudery, and yet, at every point, maintaining a simple integrity of character
तशा प्रकारची कोणी व्यक्‍ती अस्तित्वातच नसती तर चार वेगवेगळ्या लेखकांना एकाच व्यक्‍तीचे एकसारखे आणि सुसंगत वर्णन करणे जवळजवळ अशक्य ठरले असते.