Contemporaneous writings about Jesus as a "rebel"

Question

So as I was sitting thru Orthodox service this morning the phrase about Jesus being killed under Pontius Pilate rule stuck in my head and got me thinking. Is there a site of contemporaneous writings about Jesus that mention either the gatherings/meetings from the governments stand point ?

Answer 1

There is no contemporaneous historical or archaeological documentation of Jesus. Christians and non-Christians alike have been searching for such documentation for over a thousand years, with no luck so far. This is not unusual: considering that Jesus was executed as a criminal in a distant and unruly Roman province nearly two thousand years ago, the chances of any documentation being made, let alone surviving this long, are very slim. Jesus is possibly the single most secondarily well-documented person in the history of the world, but most of the earliest documentation of him comes from decades after his death and is focused on his followers rather than the man himself.