T.C. Schmidt , The Gospel Coalition
"The implications are clear: Josephus fully acknowledged Jesus’s miraculous deeds, as other ancient non-Christians did. And this comes from a man raised in first-century Jerusalem, a man who knew those involved in Jesus’s trial, a man who went on to become one of the finest historians the ancient world ever produced. He was also perfectly ready to deny the miraculous—he laughed at the idea of certain wizards casting spells on him when he served as a general, and he unmasked false prophets and charlatans when writing his books of history—but in the case of Jesus, he didn’t claim his miracles were false, or exaggerations, or the stuff of legends. While Josephus wasn’t sure of the source for Jesus’s supernatural deeds, he was sure they happened." The title is a bit over the top (perhaps better "New Research Finds Ancient Attestation To Jesus's Miracles"), but really interesting regardless. This is the same guy who wrote Josephus and Jesus, mentioned previously in TGFI (and still available for free at https://josephusandjesus.com/purchase-page/)
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