Josephus, a first century non-Christian historian, wrote: “Now there was at this time Jesus, a wise man . . . for he was a doer of wonderful works, a teacher of such men as receive the truth with pleasure. He drew over to him many Jews, and also many of the Greeks. This man was the Christ. And when Pilate had condemned him to the cross...those who loved him from the first did not forsake him, for he appeared to them alive on the third day . . . And even now, the race of Christians, so named from him, has not died out.”