Jesus story. Jesus was supposed to have worked greater wonders and to have
created a wider sensation than Tell; therefore, it is more difficult to
explain the silence of historians like Josephus, Pliny and Quintilian;
or of philosophers like Philo, Seneca and Epictetus, concerning Jesus,
than to explain the silence of the Swiss chroniclers concerning Tell.




THE JESUS STORY A RELIGIOUS DRAMA



We have now progressed far enough in our investigation to pause a
moment for reflection before we proceed any further. I am conscious of
no intentional misrepresentation or suppression of the facts relating
to the question in hand. If I have erred through ignorance, I shall
correct any mistake I may have made, if some good reader will take the
trouble to enlighten me. I am also satisfied that I have not commanded
the evidence, but have allowed the evidence to command me. I am not
interested in either proving or disproving the existence of the New-
Testament Jesus. I am not an advocate, I am rather an umpire, who
hears the evidence and pronounces his decision accordingly. Let the
lawyers or the advocates argue _pro_ and _con_. I only weigh,--and I
am sure, impartially,--the evidence which the witnesses offer. We have
heard and examined quite a number of these, and, I, at least, am
compelled to say, that unless stronger evidence be forthcoming, a
historical Jesus has not been proven by the evidence thus far taken
in. This does not mean that there is no evidence whatever that Jesus
was a real existence, but that the evidence is not enough to prove it.