Who was Jesus? An Alternative History.

By Richard Baker

A story of Jesus. Not the accepted one, but one in which he is not God, or the Messiah. He is sometimes accepted as such, but it is all a show, organized and produced by Luke, and the Apostles. Jesus pretends to be a prophet, preaching and healing people with so much success that he is accepted by the masses as what he is pretending to be.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Richard Baker
• Release date: Jul 3, 2020

Richard Baker

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Who was Jesus?

Copyright 2016 Richard Baker

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Table of Contents.

Acknowledgements

Prologue

Chapter 1 - Mary and Joseph

Chapter 2 - Birth of Jesus

Chapter 3 - Herod and Wise Men

Chapter 4 - Jesus early life

Chapter 5 - Beginning Prophet

Chapter 6 - John meets Jesus

Chapter 7 - Jesus arrives

Chapter 8 - Challenged by Priests

Chapter 9 - Jerusalem

Chapter 10 - Judas found out

Chapter 11 - Jesus leaves

About the Author

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Acknowledgements.

My sincere thanks to my wife, for her unending love and patience. She has endured more travel and life events than could be expected, yet she remains strong and true.

She is also a notable artist, and graciously allows me to use her images for the covers of my books.

Prologue.

We made the whole thing up! It was a joke at first; Jesus, this unknown guy, from Nazareth of all places. We'd hung out together for a few years, and he was always messing about, pretending to be some famous person, then he hit on this idea of a prophet, a holy man. He tried it on a couple of times, and a few people believed him. We told them the truth afterward, and they were amazed! They said he was totally believable. And then, wouldn't you know it, we met this guy, what was his name ... oh yeah, Luke.

He was a physician, a real learned guy. He had traveled quite a lot, even been to Alexandria in Greece! Greek culture was quite wide spread in our day, anyhow, and Luke said he had written a play, in Greek. The Greeks were fond of their different gods, so his play was about a god, in human form, who had come down from the heavens to live on earth, and rescue us humans from our sinful ways. Good luck! Anyhow, Luke said he got the idea from the Egyptian culture. They had a few gods who came down to help, and he had read that the Babylonians also had similar beliefs, so as the Jewish books also promised a Messiah, well, we could provide the messiah they were waiting for.

He said wouldn't it be great if we could fool people for a while, with Jesus of Nazareth as the main character, then later when we revealed the truth they would be amazed again. But then we would form a theatrical company, and use the phony event as advertising. Then we could put the play on for real, and make some money out of it! He had some grand ideas, I tell you! He had seen many plays in his travels, and had seen how people paid good money to watch.

Jesus, of course, was all for it. He was kind of mystical, a bit different, and his