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Originally Posted by Textcritic
What makes you think so? This is something that contemporary historians or government officials from the time might claim, but since virtually no actual records survive from the period, then we have no idea about how meticulous any of them were. To be clear here, when I speak of "records" in this context it is with reference to court filings (if there even were such things), official imperial and government papers and the like sort. None of these documents have survived.
Because no official records have survived from the first century. Period.
You are misinformed. The only physical evidence for the existence of Pontius Pilate is an inscription excavated from the port of Caesarea, the Gospels, and the writings of Josephus from the end of the first century.
Because he was not an important figure. In his lifetime Jesus was not well known, and he made an almost imperceptible impression on his contemporaries. He was a rather commonplace apocalyptic prophet with a very similar message—how many other apocalyptic Jewish prophets from the first century are we aware of? If anything, it is pretty remarkable that we know anything at all about Jesus.
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Thank you for the response. I'll take this all in as an expert's opinion and be more skeptical of the sources I read.