Whether one believes that Jesus of Nazareth is the Christ or the Messiah ... The idea that Jesus was a mythical figure has been consistently rejected by the scholarly consensus.

Decades of Roman rule were causing ever more resentment. Jesus was born to a family from a village called Nazareth, near the Sea of Galilee. As he was growing up, Judaea was collapsing into chaos.

Jesus grew up in Nazareth, but the people there did not recognise his importance. They would have known his family very well and would have seen him as a carpenter. They would have found it ...