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 correct place names shows that they were based on reliable information from first hand testimony.

How big are the differences between the hand-written copies of the Gospels' accounts of Jesus? Do these undermine what we can know about…

Can we be confident that we have the original text of the Gospels? How does it compare to other ancient documents?

Are the Gospels full of contradictions? What would have been seen as normal standards of trustworthy historical writing at that time?

This video describes the discovery of the earliest copy of part of John's Gospel, the 'John Rylands Fragment'.

This video examines the historical evidence that Jesus performed miracles.

This video considers whether we can dismiss the accounts of Jesus's life simply because they describe miracles.

Once we've got at the facts behind the myths about Jesus, this final video considers what difference he makes to us today.