> > > - There would be (literal) darkness at his crucifixion. (Psalm 22:6-8 / Matthew 27:45)
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> > What is the historical record on Jesus apart from the Gospels and other religious works?
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> "Phlegon, a Greek author from Caria writing a chronology soon after 137 A.D., reported that in the fourth year of the 202nd Olympiad (i.e., 33 A.D.) there was 'the greatest eclipse of the sun' and that 'it became night in the sixth hour of the day [i.e., noon] so that the stars even appeared in the heavens. There was a great earthquake in Bithynia, and many things were overturned in Nicaea.'"

This was written 100 years after the events described, which leads me to believe that Phlegon didn't personally witness this. How, therefore, do we know that this happened? I certainly don't recall mention of an eclipse or an earthquake at the time of the Christ's death, and I'm sure that the authors of the Gospels, at the very least, would have considered such events comment-worthy.

winter"Can anyone cite a contemporary witness?"mute