Jewish sources;
"...Rabbi Joshua was reciting the Shema when Jesus came before him. He intended
to receive him and made a sign to him. He [Jesus] thing that it was to repel
him, when, put up a brick and worshipped it. 'Repent', said Rabbi Joshua to
Jesus.
Jesus
replied, 'I have learned this from you: He who sins and causes others to sin is
not afforded the means of repentance'.
And a Rabbi has said, 'Jesus the Nazarene practiced magic and led Israel
astray.'"
- Babylonian Sanhedrin 107b
The Talmudhas "accounts of
Jesus ben Pandira,
(it was said that he was the
bastard son of a roman oficer)
who
was tricked into trial, then
executed as a sorcerer and blasphemer during the days of Roman occupation of
Jerusalem (Sanhedrin 67 a.and Shabbath 104 b.)..."
"On the eve of Passover
they hanged Yeshu
(of Nazareth) and the herald went before him for forty days saying (Yeshu of
Nazareth) is going forth to be stoned in that he hath practiced sorcery and
beguiled and led astray Israel. Let everyone knowing aught in his defence come
and plead for him. But they found naught in his defence and hanged him on the
eve of Passover."
- Babylonian Sanhedrin 43a. Yeb. IV 3; 49a:
(Note that "hanged" here means
"hanged on a cross " - crucified.)
Roman sources;
"Therefore, to put an end to the rumor Nero created a diversion and subjected to the most extra-ordinary tortures those hated for their abominations by the common people called Christians. The originator of this name (was) Christ, who, during the reign of Tiberius had been executed by sentence of the procurator Pontinus Pilate. Repressed for the time being, the deadly superstition broke out again not only in Judea, the original source of the evil, but also in the city (Rome), where all things horrible or shameful in the world collect and become popular. So an arrest was made of all who confessed; then on the basis of their information, an immense multitude was convicted, not so much of the crime of arson as for hatred of the human race." ........"Mockery of every sort was added to their deaths. Covered with the skins of beasts, they were torn by dogs and perished, or were nailed to crosses, or were doomed to the flames. These served to illuminate the night when daylight failed. Nero had thrown open the gardens for the spectacle, and was exhibiting a show in the circus, while he mingled with the people in the dress of a charioteer or drove about in a chariot. Hence, even for criminals who deserved extreme and exemplary punishment there arose a feeling of compassion; for it was not, as it seemed, for the public good, but glut one man's cruelty, that they were being punished." (Tacitus, Annales, 15, 44)
Pilate had condemned him to a cross. Josephus, Antiquities 18,3;3
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