Where can I find these references about Jesus?

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My pastor said some things in our church, the Church of Ultimate Holiness in the UK.

1. Jesus was BIG

There are written accounts he was 6ft 7 and 22 stone and muscle bound. For reasons such as tall people are more believable (if he was 4ft he d have issues being taken seriously and couldn t clear the synagogue alone)

2. Jesus liked wine

He used his power to demonstrate there is a time and place to have fun BUT he didn t like beer because the Jews were poor at making it and it gives you a beer gut.

3. Jesus had a balanced diet and hearty meals

"Thou canst live on bread alone" he said and made sense given his excellent physique part of Gods plan to eat and exercise

4. Jesus was indirectly a supporter of prostitution

Although not a promoter of it. Given the way men get violent, perverse etc. He didn t condemn them for preventing the greater evils and for many women it paid the bills i.e survival.

5. Jesus was too big to put in the catacombs

This is why he ended up being put in a cave. Given most people were quite short and thin by today s comparison it was simply practical.

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There are also two references to Jesus in the works of Josephus, a first-century Jewish historian.
It is not to be expected that Roman historians would have much to say about an apparently small religious movement in faraway Palestine. At best we would expect to find scanty references, and such is the case. Thus, that foremost Roman historian, Tacitus, tells of Nero fastening the blame for the burning of Rome upon those “called Christians by the populace. Cristus, from whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of one of our procurators, Pontius Pilatus.”​—The Complete Works of Tacitus, translated by A. Church and W. Brodribb, p. 380.

JASON · Answer

Looks more like Thor to me.

Anonymous · Answer

"My pastor said" translation:  the following is a crock.

🤔 Jay · Answer

Jesus is a character of one book, the Roman New Testament.
There is no other reference.

"Beware a man of one book" 
---- Thomas Aquinas

Where can I find these references about Jesus?

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