because he distrusts ‘believing’ eyewitness accounts. Even though the evidence of COMPLETEly changed lives means nothing to him. It certainly meant something to the Sanhedrin, who were in enmity with christianity. At any rate, if he is honest, the testimony of the ENEMies of Christ will mean something. It is a good test of honesty.
Suetonius wrote in his Life of Claudius: “As the Jews were making constant disturbances at the instigation of Chrestus, he expelled them from Rome.
Of course, by the time Claudius was emperor, Jesus was already dead.
Note this is no assertion that Christ was god, nor that he was killed by Pilate. This seems to be a common trouble maker, no hint of the divine.