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Yes, of course he was.

The most thorough accounts of his life can be found in the New Testament in the Bible, independently written at different times by Matthew and John (two of his disciples), Mark ( another follower) and Luke who was not a Jew but a Greek doctor and a friend of another follower, Paul. He was commissioned to write an orderly history of Jesus and so he wrote two books - his gospel and Acts (which tells of the last days of Jesus before the Ascension and the early church).

In addition to these, Paul and others wrote letters to churches and to individuals across the Roman Empire, where the life and works of Jesus are described. Many of these are also in the new Testament.

In addition to these, there have been many secular historians who have described Jesus. The most important of these is Josephus, but others like Tacitus, Pliny the younger, and many others also described Jesus.

In addition to these there is a great oral tradition that pervades the early church. Some of the early church leaders did leave writings of these oral traditions passed down from Jesus himself. One example is Irenaeus, who was a pupil of Ploycarp, himself a pupil of John, one of Jesus' closest disciples.

In fact, there is more historical evidence confirming that Jesus was an actual person and confirming his teaching, deeds and life, than there is for the existence of Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare, or Alexander the great - yet no one would ever question that these persons had never existed.

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