[...] Influenced by the British Unitarian Joseph Priestley, Jefferson set his prodigious intellect and energy on the historical figure at the center of the Christian faith: Jesus of Nazareth. Jefferson became convinced that Jesus' message had been obscured and corrupted by the apostle Paul, the Gospel writers and Protestant reformers.

^ Jefferson Bible, 1820

^ Jump up to: a b c Thomas Jefferson's Religion

^ Peterson, 1970, ch. 2 [e-book].

^ Wood, 2010, p. 577.

^ U.S. Gov: National Archives

^ Finkelman, 2006, p. 921.

^ Yarbrough, 2006, p. 28.

^ Peterson, 2003, p. 315.

^ W. W. Hening, ed., Statutes at Large of Virginia, vol. 12 (1823): 84–86.

^ Meacham, 2012, pp. 369–370.

^ Meacham, 2012, pp. 472–473.

^ Randall, 1994, p. 555.

^ Meacham, 2012, pp. 471–473.

^ Sanford, 1984, pp. 85–86.

^ Jump up to: a b Wood, 2010, p. 586.

^ Malone, 1981, pp. 140–143.

^ Meacham, 2012, pp. 224–225.

^ Bailey, 2007, p. 82; Wood, 2010, p. 144; Meacham, 2012, p. 249.

^ Ferling, 2013, pp. 221–222.

^ Wood, 2010, pp. 293–295.

^ Wood, 2010, pp. 295–296.

^ Cogliano, 2006, p. 219; Onuf, 2007, p. 258.

