Why where there so many people called Jesus at the time of biblical Jesus and are you sure the bible refers to only on person called Jesus?

Answer 1

There are at least four persons bearing the name Jesus. They were Jesus ben Phiabi, Jesus ben Sec, Jesus ben Damneus and Jesus ben Gamaliel.

Even Saint Paul had referred to a person calling him as another Jesus (2 Corinthians 11, 4)

Despite so many scrambled details, it is not difficult to recognize Jesus, but was he Jesus of Nazareth.

It seems there is confusion. In Gospel, it is written that Mary gave birth to Jesus in a manger at Bethlehem. Why did they go to Galilee? It was not a Roman province. Caesar Augustus or any other emperor had not ordered a 'Universal census'. At least there is no historical record to corroborate this. Moreover, Nazareth did not exist before the second century.

Both Mary and Joseph were Jesus' real parents. Twelve-year-old Jesus they found in the temple was an abandoned child of some unknown parents, who had left him on the temple steps, while Herod went on a killing spree killing all the two-year-old children. For twelve years, he had lived in the temple. This is how he had learned the scriptures.

However, we know he is Jesus the Son of God, from his sermon on the mount, his parables, the things he told his disciples about 'Kingdom of Heaven' and last but not the least the instructions he gave to his disciples just before his crucifixion during the 'Last Supper'.