article_snippet: What do scholars know about Jesus?
article_snippet: : Jesus is actually a pretty mysterious figure in the New Testament.
article_snippet: In fact, the relative lack of information about Jesus in the Gospels has provided the invitation, across the centuries, for people to speculate about who Jesus was and what could have possibly motivated Jesus to hand Jesus over to the authorities.
article_snippet: We know very little about Jesus back story from the Gospels.
article_snippet: Jesus appears in the list of 12 disciples called by Jesus, but does not become a main character in the drama until the Passion Narratives.
article_snippet: In John's Gospel, Jesus is the disciple who is concerned about Mary wasting money anointing Jesus
article_snippet: (John 12.4-6) hints that it was financial greed (John 12.6), and Matthew says that (John 12.4-6) betrayed Jesus for "thirty pieces of silver" (Matthew 27.14-15).
article_snippet: Candida Moss answers your questions about John the Baptist .
article_snippet: We can only guess as to what was in the mind of the historical Jesus.
article_snippet: We lack of knowledge about this and many other aspects in the life of the historical Jesus