This video considers how long it took before Jesus's first followers came to believe that he was the Son of God.

Do the Gospels give us any indication that they are using eyewitness testimony? Richard Bauckham examines some of the minor characters in…

Were the Gospel accounts based on the testimony of eyewitnesses who were still alive when the Gospels were written?

Were the Gospel accounts corrupted as they were passed on? Was there any way to prevent this happening?

Are the New Testament books an arbitrary or personal selection of what was available? Or is there more to it than that?

Did Jesus claim or imply that he was anything more than a prophet? Or did his followers transform him into the Son of God many years later?

Did the early Christian communities apply Jesus's teaching to the problems they faced or alter the facts to fit their agendas?

In this video, Richard Bauckham considers whether we can know who were the main witnesses behind the Gospel accounts of Jesus's life.

The way the Gospel accounts use the right names for people shows that they were about real people, based on reliable information.