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Quotation from Jewish Antiquities by Flavius Josephus
“Now there was about this time Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man”
Jewish Antiquities, Book 18, Ch. 3.3, trans. William Whiston (1737)
Opening words of the received Testimonium Flavianum, a passage widely discussed as partly authentic, interpolated or both.
Citation: "Now there was about this time Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man" — Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, Book 18, Ch. 3.3, trans. William Whiston (1737). (id jewish-antiquities-q1)
Portrait: Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Iudaicae, Florence, Plut. 66.5, Josephus, Public domain.
