Have you ever been told that Jesus was not a real person and that the New Testament is a forgery that was written by early Christians to promote their religion? There is in fact a large body of written evidence for Yeshua's existence from both Jewish and Roman historians. There are 5,856 Greek manuscripts. The earliest manuscript is from AD 130, John Rylands Papyrus: P52. There are also 18,130 Non-Greek Manuscripts. Therefore there are total 23,986 manuscripts for the Nt text itself.
The Historian Flavius Josephus wrote one of the earliest non-biblical accounts of Yeshua.
The first-century Jewish historian Flavius Josephus, mentions Yeshua twice in Jewish Antiquities in his massive 20-volume history of the Jewish people that was written around 93 AD. Another account of Jesus appears in Annals of Imperial Rome, a first-century history of the Roman Empire written around 116 AD by the Roman senator and historian Tacitus. In chronicling the burning of Rome in 64 AD, Tacitus mentions that Emperor Nero falsely blamed “the persons commonly called Christians, who were hated for their enormities. Christus, the founder of the name, was put to death by Pontius Pilate, procurator of Judea in the reign of Tiberius.”
In addition, the Roman governor Pliny the Younger wrote to Emperor Trajan that early Christians would “sing hymns to Christ as to a god.” Some scholars also believe Roman historian Suetonius references Yeshua noting that Emperor Claudius had expelled Jews from Rome who “were making constant disturbances at the instigation of Chrestus.”
There is plenty of written evidence that Yeshua was in fact a real person!