[Uri’el-2012]

"On the eve of the Passover Yeshu was hanged. For forty days before the execution took place,
a herald went forth and cried, "He is going forth to be stoned because he has practiced sorcery
and enticed Israel to apostasy. Any one who can say anything in his favor, let him come
forward and plead on his behalf."
But since nothing was brought forward in his favor he was hanged on the eve of the Passover!"

Gal. 3:13, "Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree."

Luke 22:1, "Now the Feast of Unleavened Bread, which is called the Passover, was approaching. 2And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how they might put Him to death; for they were afraid of the people."

This quotation was taken from the reading in The Babylonian Talmud, transl. by I. Epstein (London: Soncino, 1935), vol. III, Sanhedrin 43a, p. 281 as cited in Habermas, Gary R., The Historical Jesus: Ancient Evidence for the Life of Christ, (Joplin, MO: College Press Publishing Company) 1996.

Have you seen this ?

[Alter Kaker]

This quotation was taken from the reading in The Babylonian Talmud,

Talmud wasn't written down until much later. Sorry, that isn't a contemporaneous source either.

[PatrickHenry]

There's a serious distinction to be made between:

(a) contemporaneous evidence written by a witness; and

(b) commentary written about something, well after the fact, where the author is not a witness and may not have had access to material in category (a).

In category (a) we have only scripture.