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If you’re young in your faith, I would advise you to mature more before advancing through these example further.
And for the rest of you, know that sources that are provided below are intentionally offensive and/or obscene in nature, so proceed with caution.

This is a case that Non-Christians knew about the Christian faith and belittle it in the form of satire prior to the 2nd century. We’ll do this by linking their sections of their work and cite the relevant verses. We already know that Non-believers would parody, accuse, and mock the gospel message in the early centuries, if it ever stopped. Also it’s something that the book of Acts reports (although not through a literary form) when Paul was preaching to philosophers in Athens, Acts 17:18-19, 32 (cf. 2:13)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passing_of_Peregrinus
https://www.bluffton.edu/courses/humanities/1/celsus.htm
https://www.livius.org/sources/content/philostratus-life-of-apollonius/philostratus-life-of-apollonius-4.6-10/
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-roman-studies/article/abs/human-sacrifice-among-pagans-and-christians/45BA0A265B9E2F192CA9B037AD9839DA
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110449242-002/html?lang=en
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Marcus-Cornelius-Fronto#ref938997
https://www.tertullian.org/fathers/julian_apostate_galileans_1_text.htm
https://www.academia.edu/43321375/The_Hebrew_Story_of_Munqelos_Mundus_and_Paulina_from_the_Yosiphun_Josippon_
https://www.academia.edu/49575135/The_Vienna_Vindobona_Manuscript_of_the_Toldot_Yeshu
I do acknowledge that individually each comparison seem rather weak, however, cumulatively the evidence for the case appears to be worth noting.

Phaedrus the Fabulist (18 B.C.E.-54 C.E.) may have the first to fabricated a spoof of the crucifixion of Jesus from Christian teachings. It may not have been the first time he rendered events or persons in this fashion.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5184/classicalj.110.2.0161
https://www.academia.edu/10820534/What_lies_behind_Phaedrus_Fables_K_O_Chong_Gossard_A_Turner_F_Verveat_eds_Public_and_Private_Lies_The_Discourse_of_Despotism_and_Deceit_in_the_Ancient_World_Leiden_Brill_2010_231_248_
https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/Phaedrus_0.pdf#page=15

Criminals at the cross, Matthew 27:38, Mark 15:27, Luke 23:32, John 19:18
https://archive.org/details/fablesofphaedrus0000phae/page/150/mode/1up?q=%22Paid+on+the+cross+for+their+crime+of+sacrilege%22

Guards by the tomb, Matthew 27:65-66
https://archive.org/details/fablesofphaedrus0000phae/page/150/mode/1up?q=%22Soldiers+were+stationed+as+sentinels+on+the+bodies%22

The women around the tomb, Matthew 27:61, 28:1; Mark 15:47, 16: 1, Luke 23: 55, 24: 10
https://archive.org/details/fablesofphaedrus0000phae/page/150/mode/1up?q=%22the+sepulchre+where+the+woman+had+confined+herself%22
https://archive.org/details/fablesofphaedrus0000phae/page/150/mode/1up?q=%22This+maid+happened+to+be+waiting+on+her+mistress%22

Aroused by a person from the tomb, Matthew 28:4, Mark 16:8, Luke 24:5
https://archive.org/details/fablesofphaedrus0000phae/page/150/mode/1up?q=%22the+man+became+madly+enamored%22

Days pasted, Matthew 26:17, 62-65, 28:1; Mark 15:42-16:1, Luke 23:54-24:1
https://archive.org/details/fablesofphaedrus0000phae/page/150/mode/1up?q=%22daily+encounters%22
https://archive.org/details/fablesofphaedrus0000phae/page/152/mode/1up?q=%22spending+more+nights+as+a+suitor%22

Light among the tomb, Matthew 28:3, Luke 24:4
https://archive.org/details/fablesofphaedrus0000phae/page/150/mode/1up?q=%22by+lamplight%22

The accusation of theft, Matthew 27:62-66, 28:4, 11-15
https://archive.org/details/fablesofphaedrus0000phae/page/152/mode/1up?q=%22+one+of+the+bodies+During+his+duty+disappeared+from+its+cross%22
https://archive.org/details/fablesofphaedrus0000phae/page/150/mode/1up?q=%22is+thought+to+have+originated+in+the+east%22
This aligns with the Nazareth Inscription:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazareth_Inscription#Text

Salvation, Matthew 28:18-20, Luke 21:46-49, John 20:22-23, 29
https://archive.org/details/fablesofphaedrus0000phae/page/152/mode/1up?q=%22So+rescuing+him+from+the+penalty+due+for+his+default%22

Woman of chastity, Luke 1:27
https://archive.org/details/fablesofphaedrus0000phae/page/150/mode/1up?q=%22of+wifely+chastity%22
https://archive.org/details/fablesofphaedrus0000phae/page/152/mode/1up?q=%22Thus+was+decency+defeated+by+dishonor%22

The man ascended from the grave, Luke 24:50-51; John 6:62, 20:17; Acts 2:33-35; Ephesians 4:8-10
https://archive.org/details/fablesofphaedrus0000phae/page/152/mode/1up?q=%22she+gave+him+Her+husband%27s+corpse+to+hoist+on+the+cross%22

The author Chariton produced a work titled “Chaereas and Callirhoe” (mid 1st century) which may serve as another satire of the Christian message during the Neronian era, where other authors, namely Heliodorus and Xenophon of Ephesus, would later re-create their own versions of this story.
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/50657/50657-h/50657-h.htm#Footnote_1286_1286

Remaining silent during trial, Matthew 27:14, Mark 15:5, Luke 23:9, John 19:9
https://archive.org/details/trent_0116302331636/page/57/mode/1up?q=%22Chaereas+remained+silent+as+he+was+led+off+with+the+others%22
https://archive.org/details/trent_0116302331636/page/59/mode/1up?q=%22ill-advised+silence%22

Carrying his cross, Matthew 36, 45; Mark 9:31; 14:41; Luke 9:44; 24:7
https://archive.org/details/trent_0116302331636/page/57/mode/1up?q=%22one+carried+his+own+cross%22
https://archive.org/details/trent_0116302331636/page/59/mode/1up?q=%22I+have+carried+the+cross%22

Crowd shouting, Matthew 27:41, Mark 15:31, Luke 23:35, John 19:15
https://archive.org/details/trent_0116302331636/page/59/mode/1up?q=%22they+shouted+loudly%2C+each+in+his+own+words%22

The crucified convict ranting, Matthew 27:44, Mark 15:32, Luke 23:39
https://archive.org/details/trent_0116302331636/page/57/mode/1up?q=%22it+is+on+your+account%2C+Callirhoe%2C+that+we+are+suffering+so.%22

Prophesying the protagonist’s death, Matthew 16:21-28, 17:22-23, 20:17-19, Mark 8:31-33, 9:30-32, 10:32-34, Luke 9:21-22, 43-45; 18:31-34
https://archive.org/details/trent_0116302331636/page/59/mode/1up?q=%22Tears+and+sighs+greeted+this+account+of+his%2C+and+Mithridates+sent+them+all+after+Chaereas+to+forestall+his+death%22

Visit in the morning (on the third day), Matthew 28:1, Mark 16:2, John 20:1
https://archive.org/details/trent_0116302331636/mode/1up?q=%22Chaereas+waited+for+the+moment+of+dawn+and+came+to+the+tomb%22

Bringing burial offerings, Mark 16:1, Luke 24:1
https://archive.org/details/collectedancient0000unse_q5s2/page/53/mode/1up?q=%22offer+wreaths+and%22

The stone rolled away, Matthew 28:2, Luke 24:2, John 20:1
https://archive.org/details/collectedancient0000unse_q5s2/page/53/mode/1up?q=%22the+stones+had+been+moved+and+the+entrance+was+open%22

Word was reach to the people, Matthew 28:7-10, 16-20; Mark 16:7, Luke 24:9-10, 46-49; John 20:1-2, 18,
https://archive.org/details/collectedancient0000unse_q5s2/page/51/mode/1up?q=%22Rumor+is+rushing+to+carry+to+Sicily+the+strange+news+that+Callirhoe+is+alive%E2%80%94+tomb+robbers+opened+her+tomb+and+carried+her+off%22

Report of the body being stolen (over a dozen times throughout the novel) Matthew 28:13, Luke 24:10
https://archive.org/details/collectedancient0000unse_q5s2/page/53/mode/1up?q=%22The+funeral+offerings+have+been+car-+ried+off%E2%80%94it+is+tomb+robbers+who+have+done+that%3B+but+what+about+the+corpse%E2%80%94where+is+it%3F%22

Disbelief preceding an investigation, Matthew 28:11-18, Luke 24:11-12, 29-31, 38-39; John 20:2-10, 19-20, 24-29
https://archive.org/details/collectedancient0000unse_q5s2/page/53/mode/1up?q=%22Many+people+could+not+believe+it+and+went+in+after+him%22

https://archive.org/details/trent_0116302331636/mode/1up?q=%22You+must+know+then+that+your+wife+is+a+partner+in+adultery+and%2C+to+prove+this+to+you%2C+I+am+ready+to+show+you+the+adulterer+in+the+very+act%22

Woman hitting her chest in woe, Luke 23:48
https://archive.org/details/collectedancient0000unse_q5s2/mode/1up?q=%22she+beat+her+breast+with+her+hand%22

Mourning upon the empty grave, Luke 24:5-6, John 20:11-16
https://archive.org/details/collectedancient0000unse_q5s2/page/37/mode/1up?q=%22r%C3%A9penting+and+sitting+by+an+empty+tomb%22

Ascension, Luke 24:50-51; John 6:62, 20:17
https://archive.org/details/trent_0116302331636/page/59/mode/1up?q=%22Chaereas+descended+from+the+cross%22
https://archive.org/details/collectedancient0000unse_q5s2/page/53/mode/1up?q=%22Chaereas+looked+towards+the+heavens%2C+stretched+up%22
https://archive.org/details/trent_0116302331636/page/48/mode/2up?q=%22+I+have+died%2C+and+been+restored+to+life%22
https://archive.org/details/collectedancient0000unse_q5s2/page/57/mode/1up?q=%22.+We+opened+the+tomb+and+found+the+corpse+alive%22

A certain professor tries to make the case that Petronius' Satyricon; a satirical, perverted, propagandist, sacrilegious (if not blasphemous), critical polemic against Nero's reign as Caesar (e.g. his mistreatment of slaves in Sat. 28 and Menecrates in Sat. 73), is one of the progenitors for the gospel of Mark (that eventually would spin off the other 3 gospels) by assuming various similarities.
Arguably these (supposed) parallels could demonstrate quite the opposite-that is, the gospels were written prior 54-68 C.E. because of the nature and popularity of this poem, the copying would only hurt the proto-orthodox’s credibility, as well as defense against the false allegations towards Christian practices (such as cannibalism and incest).
Why would Christian want to associate with such debauchery, then condemn it and endorse the opposite, especially quickly (however early you deem the writings in the apostolic era) and within a geographically wide range of agreement? The most logical and simplest answer is Petronius satirize the gospel, not for Christians strangely used the Satyricon as a some certain Q source.
We must be reminded that Nero's execution of Christians -as a cover-up for the burning of Rome- was exceptionally unpopular even to the Romans at the time. This only highlights that the Satyricon's 'Christian similarities' was a satirical probe against Nero & his rule by association (perhaps as Trimalchio (a mix of Greek 'tri' and Hebrew 'melech' for “thrice king” Bagnani, Gilbert. 1954. page 79). This is strongly alluded in Sat.78 with warnings of 'burning' and 'fire'), all the while belittling preconceived notions of Christianity & their scriptures (which doesn't deviate much from other Roman authors such as Suetonius and Tacitus).
A couple of issues with this proposal are the events of Mark 16:9-20 isn't found in earliest manuscripts so if you're going to assume Mark was the earliest gospel then you can't also assume the Satyricon 112 is what said gospel derives from. Additionally themes of ascending is only found in the gospels of Luke and John (and Pauline epistles that predate the Satyricon), the anointing of both head and feet is only found in the former, and etc. Everything points that Petronius' understanding of the gospels mainly derives from both according to Luke and Matthew (if we assume these transformative similarities are real), which is more than compatible with our theory that Luke was written between 37-55 C.E.

The magi and nativity, Matthew 1:18–25, Luke 2:4-21
https://archive.org/details/petronius00petruoft/page/153/mode/1up?q=%22I+was+encouraged+by+an+astrologer+who+happened+to+come+to+our+town%22
https://archive.org/details/petronius00petruoft/page/153/mode/1up?q=%22I+built+this+house+while+Mercury+watched+over+me.%5E+As+you+know%2C+it+was+a+tiny+place%3B+now+it+is+a+palace%22

Woes and Vipers, Matthew 3:7, 12:34, 23:33; Luke 3:7, 11:37-54
https://archive.org/details/petronius00petruoft/page/153/mode/1up?q=viper

Divest from moths, Matthew 6:19-20, Luke 12:5, 33
https://archive.org/details/petronius00petruoft/page/155/mode/1up?q=%22Mind+neither+mouse+nor+moth+corrupts+them%2C+Stichus%3B+otherM%27ise+I+will+bum+you+alive.%22

Identified as a child of god, Matthew 11:25-27; Luke 2:46-49, 3:22, 10:21-22; John 5:18, 10:36, 11:27
https://archive.org/details/petronius00petruoft/page/67/mode/1up?q=liberation
This animal aligns with Petronius’ unique view of the Judeo-Christian religion
https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2007.01.0027:text=Poems:section=24&highlight=pig
While this is a more common perspective
https://archive.org/details/petronius00petruoft/page/117/mode/1up?q=%22I%27m+a+donkey+on+the+tiles%22
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexamenos_graffito
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0216:book=2:section=79&highlight=head
https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0080%3Abook%3D5%3Achapter%3D3
https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0080%3Abook%3D5%3Achapter%3D4
https://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf03.iv.viii.i.xi.html
https://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf03.iv.iii.xvi.html
https://ccel.org/ccel/felix/octavius/anf04.iv.iii.ix.html

Rare pearl, Matthew 13:46
https://archive.org/details/petronius00petruoft/page/117/mode/1up?q=%22pearl%2C+one+in+a+thousand%22

The 5000 for food, Matthew 14:21, 16:9; Mark 6:44, 8:19, Luke 9:14, John 6:10
https://archive.org/details/petronius00petruoft/page/93/mode/1up?q=%22Five+hundred+thousand+pecks+of+wheat+were+taken+up+from+the+threshing-floor+into+the+bam.+Five+hundred+oxen+were+broken+in%22

Triumphal entry into Jerusalem, Matthew 21:1-11, Mark 11:1-11, Luke 19:28-44, John 12:12-19
https://archive.org/details/petronius00petruoft/page/155/mode/1up?q=%22+I+want+to+be+carried+out+in+splendour%2C+so+that+the+whole+crowd+calls+down+blessings+on+me%22

Anointing of feet or head with Nard, Matthew 26:6-7; Mark 14:3; Luke 7:36-38, 46 (both head and feet); John 12:3
https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2007.01.0027:text=Satyricon:section=28&highlight=anointed
https://archive.org/details/petronius00petruoft/page/135/mode/1up?q=%22ointment+in+a+silver+basin%2C+and+anointed+our+feet+as+we+lay%2C+after++H+inding+little+garlands+round+our+feet+and+ankles.+A+quantity+of+the+same+ointment+was+then+poured+into+the+mixing+bowl+and+the+lamp%22

Anointment before death, Matthew 26:12-13, Mark 14:7-9, John 12:7-8
https://archive.org/details/petronius00petruoft/page/155/mode/1up?q=%22anointed+us%22
https://archive.org/details/petronius00petruoft/page/155/mode/1up?q=%22some+ointment%22

3 days in a closed tomb, Matthew 26:17, 62-65, 28:1; Mark 15:42-16:1, Luke 23:54-24:1, Acts 10:40
https://archive.org/details/petronius00petruoft/page/233/mode/1up?q=%22and+a+third%2C%22

The Roman accusation of Christian cannibalism, Matthew 26:26, Mark 14:22, Luke 22:19, 1 Corinthians 11:24-25
https://archive.org/details/petronius00petruoft/page/321/mode/1up?q=%22cut+my+body+in+pieces+and+eat+it+up%22
Which is something Pagans presume Christians typically practiced: https://ccel.org/ccel/felix/octavius/anf04.iv.iii.xxx.html

The cry of a rooster as a prediction of death, Matthew 26:34, Mark 14:30, Luke 22:34, 60 (while he was speaking)
https://archive.org/details/petronius00petruoft/page/145/mode/1up?q=%22crew.+The+noise%22

Crucified criminals, Matthew 27:38, Mark 15: 27, Luke 23:32
https://archive.org/details/petronius00petruoft/page/231/mode/1up?q=%22some+robbers%22

The centurion, Matthew 27:54, Mark 15:39, Luke 23:47
https://archive.org/details/petronius00petruoft/page/231/mode/1up?q=%22The+soldier+who+was+watching+the+crosses%22

Spoke of giving up a spirit, Matthew 27:50, Luke 23:46
https://archive.org/details/petronius00petruoft/page/145/mode/1up?q=%22just+going+to+give+up+the+ghost%22%22

The women within the tomb, Matthew 27:61, 28:1; Mark 15:47, 16: 1, Luke 23: 55, 24: 10
https://archive.org/details/petronius00petruoft/page/230/mode/1up?q=%22devoted+maid%22
https://archive.org/details/petronius00petruoft/page/233/mode/1up

Sealed tomb, Matthew 27:60, Mark 15:46, Luke 23:53
https://archive.org/details/petronius00petruoft/page/228/mode/2up?q=vault

The accusation of theft, Matthew 27:62-66, 28:4, 11-15
https://archive.org/details/petronius00petruoft/page/235/mode/1up?q=%22she+ordered+her+husband%27s+body+to+be+taken+out+of+the+coflSn+and+fixed+up+on+the+empty+cross%22

Smacking the blinded, Matthew 26:68, Luke 22:64, Mark 14:65, John 18:22
https://archive.org/details/petronius00petruoft/page/121/mode/1up?q=smacking
https://archive.org/details/petronius00petruoft/page/122/mode/1up?q=%22blind+man%27s+cheek%22

Story of women, tombs, a guard of the crucified, and the missing body, Matthew 28:1-15, Mark 15:47, 16:1-11, Luke 24:1-11, John 20:1-18
https://archive.org/details/petronius00petruoft/page/235/mode/1up?q=%22soldier+was+eluded+while+he+was+off+duty%2C+and+next+daj%27%2C+seeing+one+of+the+crosses+without+its+corpse%22

Light among the tomb, Matthew 28:3, Luke 24:4
https://archive.org/details/petronius00petruoft/page/231/mode/1up?q=%22light+shining+plainly+among+the+tombs%22

Fear of the otherworldly before the tomb, Matthew 28:4, Mark 16:8, Luke 24:5
https://archive.org/details/petronius00petruoft/page/230/mode/2up?q=%22halted+in+confusion%22

Ascension from death, Luke 24:50-51; John 6:62, 20:17; Acts 2:33-35; 2 Corinthians 5:8; Ephesians 4:8-10; Hebrews 4:14
https://archive.org/details/petronius00petruoft/page/235/mode/1up?q=ascended
https://archive.org/details/petronius00petruoft/page/138/mode/1up?q=%22life+afte%5E+%5Eeath%22

Woman of chastity, Luke 1:27
https://archive.org/details/petronius00petruoft/page/231/mode/1up?q=%22the+one+true+and+brilliant+example+of+chastity+and+love%22

Thirty years of life on earth, Luke 3:23
https://archive.org/details/petronius00petruoft/page/153/mode/1up?q=%22thirty+years%22

The seventy, Luke 10:1, 17
https://archive.org/details/petronius00petruoft/page/93/mode/1up?q=%22Thirty+boys+and+forty+girls%22

Rich man vs poor man, Luke 16:19–3
https://archive.org/details/petronius00petruoft/page/85/mode/1up?q=%22A+poor+man+and+a+rich+man+were+once+at+enmity%22

Beating of the chest for mourning, Luke 23:48, (also mentions her hair before the body, Luke 7:38, John 12:3)
https://archive.org/details/petronius00petruoft/page/229/mode/1up?q=%22the+procession+with+loose+hair%2C+and+beating%22

10 day episode while first highlighting the fifth day first which reflects the Pentecost (10*5=50), Acts 1:3, 15; 2:1
https://archive.org/details/petronius00petruoft/page/230/mode/1up?q=%22Fifth+day%22
https://archive.org/details/petronius00petruoft/page/233/mode/1up?q=%22night+together%22
https://archive.org/details/petronius00petruoft/page/235/mode/1up?q=%22The+soldier+was+eluded+while+he+was+off+duty%2C+and+next+daj%27%22

A gentile wanted to be circumcised so he would become a Jew, Acts 15:24, 16:3; Galatians 2:3, 6:12
https://archive.org/details/petronius00petruoft/page/209/mode/1up?q=circumcise

Ones who turns the world, Acts 17:6
https://archive.org/details/petronius00petruoft/page/119/mode/1up?q=%22who+can+turn+the+whole+world+upside+down%22

Cut hair at sea, Acts 18:18
https://archive.org/details/petronius00petruoft/page/213/mode/1up?q=shaved

The storm leading to a shipwreck, Acts 27
https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2007.01.0027%3Atext%3DSatyricon%3Asection%3D114
https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2007.01.0027%3Atext%3DSatyricon%3Asection%3D115

Josephus after he wrote what we identify as the Testimonium Flavianum, he continues with the story of Paulina and Decius Mundus. This tale is seemingly anachronistic by approximately ten years and irrelevant in the sections prior to it. He seems to acknowledge this at the ending of the paragraph, then he recounts a similar story with Saturninus and Fulvia (whom some suspect to be Paulina as well) before Josephus returns to his cohesive, professional techniques of history. These two accounts would appear disjointed, if not random, however, these could make sense if Josephus created a parody regarding Mary (mother of Jesus, and maybe the other women at Jesus’ tomb), Jesus Christ, and possibly Paul, if we understand it in the context of the Testimonium Flavianum (and in the scope of Christianity). The following will demonstrate this topically.

Saturninus associated with deity Saturn, which Romans thought he was associated with the Jewish God,
https://archive.org/details/theAntiquitiesOfTheJews_507/page/n790/mode/1up?q=%22She+was+married+to+Saturninus%22
https://www.livius.org/sources/content/tacitus/tacitus-on-the-jews/
https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cassius_Dio/65*.html
https://www.sefaria.org/Shabbat.156a.11?lang=bi&with=all&lang2=en

The offerings presented, Matthew 2:11
https://archive.org/details/theAntiquitiesOfTheJews_507/page/n790/mode/1up?q=%22caught+by+presents%22

Wanting to hide the (presumed) affair, Matthew 1:19-20
https://archive.org/details/theAntiquitiesOfTheJews_507/page/n791/mode/1up?q=%22+told+her+husband+of+the+horrid+nature+of+this+wicked+contrivance%2C+and+prayed+him+not+to+neglect+to+assist+her+in+this+case%22

Fasting, Matthew 4:2, Luke 4:2
https://archive.org/details/theAntiquitiesOfTheJews_507/page/n790/mode/1up?q=%22famish+himself+to+death+for+want+of+food%22

Jesus prophesied his timely death, Matthew 16:21-28, 17:22-23, 20:17-19, Mark 8:31-33, 9:30-32, 10:32-34, Luke 9:21-22, 43-45; 18:31-34
https://archive.org/details/theAntiquitiesOfTheJews_507/page/n790/mode/1up?q=%22for+he+did+not+conceal+his+intentions+to+destroy+himself+from+others%22

Preaching to the nations, Matthew 24:14, 28:16-20; Mark 11:17, 16:15-16; Luke 7:16-17, 24:47,
https://archive.org/details/theAntiquitiesOfTheJews_507/page/n791/mode/1up?q=%22he+discovered+the+fact+to+the+emperor%3B+whereupon+Tiberius+inquired+into+the+matter+thoroughly%22

Ide as Judas Iscariot, Matthew 26:47, Mark 14:43, Luke 22:47-49, John 18:2-6
https://archive.org/details/theAntiquitiesOfTheJews_507/page/n790/mode/1up?q=%22Ide%2C+one+skilful+in+all+sorts+of+mischief.+This+woman+was+very+much+grieved%22
https://archive.org/details/theAntiquitiesOfTheJews_507/page/n791/mode/1up?q=%22as+well+as+Ide%2C+who+was+the+occasion+of+their+perdition%22

Random of money, Matthew 26:15, 27:3
https://archive.org/details/theAntiquitiesOfTheJews_507/page/n790/mode/1up?q=%22offer+of+money%2C+of+twenty+five+thousand%22

The last supper, Matthew 26:26, Mark 14:22, Luke 22:14
https://archive.org/details/theAntiquitiesOfTheJews_507/page/n790/mode/1up?q=%22supped+there%22

concealing the tomb, Matthew 27:60, Mark 15:46, Luke 23:53
https://archive.org/details/theAntiquitiesOfTheJews_507/page/n791/mode/1up?q=%22a+priest+shut+the+doors+of+the+temple%2C+when%2C+in+the+holy+part+of+it%22

Three days, Matthew 27:64; Mark 8:31, 10:34; Luke 24:21, 46; John 2:19
https://archive.org/details/theAntiquitiesOfTheJews_507/page/n791/mode/1up?q=%22on+the+Third+day+after%22

Three women, Paulina, Ide, and Fulvia parodying the women at the tomb
https://archive.org/details/theAntiquitiesOfTheJews_507/page/n790/mode/1up?q=Fulvia+Ide+Paulina

Light of the tomb, Matthew 28:3, Luke 24:4
https://archive.org/details/theAntiquitiesOfTheJews_507/page/n791/mode/1up?q=%22Lights+were+also+put+out%22

Revealed himself to the woma/en, Matthew 28:2-5, Mark 16:5, Luke 24:4, John 20:14
https://archive.org/details/theAntiquitiesOfTheJews_507/page/n791/mode/1up?q=%22did+Mundus+leap+out%22

The witness of the women, Matthew 28:1, 7-10; Mark 16:1, 7; Luke 24:9-10, John 20:1-2, 18, or Acts 12:14
https://archive.org/details/theAntiquitiesOfTheJews_507/page/n791/mode/1up?q=%22+Paulina+came+early+to+her+husband%2C+and+told+him+how+the+god+Anubis+had+appeared+to+her.+Among+her+friends%2C+also%2C+she+declared+how+great+a+value+she+put+upon+this+favor%2C+who+partly+disbelieved+the+thing%2C+when+they+reflected+on+its+nature%2C+and+partly+were+amazed+at+it%2C+as+having+no+pretence+for+not+believing+it%2C+when+they+considered+the+modesty+and+the+dignity+of+the+person%22

The heretical rumors, Matthew 28:11-15
https://archive.org/details/theAntiquitiesOfTheJews_507/page/n791/mode/1up?q=%22I+now+return+to+the+relation+of+what+happened+about+this+time+to+the+Jews+at+Rome%2C+as+I+formerly+told+you+I+would%22

Salvation, Matthew 28:18-20, Luke 21:46-49, John 20:22-23, 29
https://archive.org/details/theAntiquitiesOfTheJews_507/page/n791/mode/1up?q=%22thou+hast+saved+me%22

After the resurrection Jesus only appeared to those closest to him, Matthew 28, Luke 24, John 20-21
https://archive.org/details/theAntiquitiesOfTheJews_507/page/n791/mode/1up?q=%22those+priests+who+knew+nothing+of+this+stratagem+were+stirring%22

Believed she’ll conceive a child from god, Luke 1:26-31
https://archive.org/details/theAntiquitiesOfTheJews_507/page/n790/mode/1up?q=Anubis

Woman of chastity and protagonist, Luke 1:27
https://archive.org/details/theAntiquitiesOfTheJews_507/page/n790/mode/1up?q=%22satisfied+with+the+chastity+of+his+wife.%22
https://archive.org/details/theAntiquitiesOfTheJews_507/page/n791/mode/1up?q=%22Fulvia%2C+a+woman+of+great+dignity%22

Praised as the greatest among women, Luke 1:30, 41-42
https://archive.org/details/theAntiquitiesOfTheJews_507/page/n790/mode/1up?q=%22one+who%2C+on+account+of+the+dignity+of+her+ancestors%2C+and+by+the+regular+conduct+of+a+virtuous+life%2C+had+a+great+reputation%3A+she+was+also+very+rich%3B+and+although+she+was+of+a+beautiful+countenance%2C+and+in+that+flower+of+her+age+wherein+women+are+the+most+gay%2C+yet+did+she+lead+a+life+of+great+modesty%22

Mourning, Luke 23:48
https://archive.org/details/theAntiquitiesOfTheJews_507/page/n791/mode/1up?q=%22Her+garments%22

Ascension, Luke 24:50-51; John 6:62, 20:17
https://archive.org/details/theAntiquitiesOfTheJews_507/page/nundefined/mode/1up?q=%22he+only+banished+Mundus%2C+but+did+no+more+to+him%2C+because+he+supposed+that+what+crime+he+had+committed+was+done+out+of+the+passion+of+love%22

“Paulina” as Paul with an inverse road of redemption, Acts 7:58, 8:1, 3; 9:1-28
https://archive.org/details/theAntiquitiesOfTheJews_507/page/n790/mode/1up?q=paulina

Relocated expenses, Acts 16:19-21 (or Matthew 2:11)
https://archive.org/details/theAntiquitiesOfTheJews_507/page/n792/mode/1up?q=%22one+that+had+embraced+the+Jewish+religion%2C+to+send+purple+and+gold+to+the+temple+at+Jerusalem%3B+and+when+they+had+gotten+them%2C+they+employed+them+for+their+own+uses%2C+and+spent+the+money+themselves%22

Paul after his defense in Athens and went to Corinthian synagogue, Acts 17:22, 32-18:1
https://archive.org/details/theAntiquitiesOfTheJews_507/page/n791/mode/1up?q=%22There+was+a+man+who+was+a+Jew%2C+but+had+been+driven+away+from+his+own+country+by+an+accusation+laid+against+him+for+transgressing+their+laws%2C+and+by+the+fear+he+was+under+of+punishment+for+the+same%3B+but+in+all+respects+a+wicked+man.+He%2C+then+living+at+Rome%2C+professed+to+instruct+men+in+the+wisdom+of+the+laws+of+Moses%22

Paul, Silas, Timothy, and Dionysius, Acts 17:10-15, 34?
https://archive.org/details/theAntiquitiesOfTheJews_507/page/n791/mode/1up?q=%22He+procured+also+three+other+men%2C+entirely+of+the+same+character+with+himself%2C+to+be+his+partners%22
https://archive.org/details/theAntiquitiesOfTheJews_507/page/n791/mode/1up?q=%22Thus+were+these+Jews+banished+out+of+the+city+by+the+wickedness+of+four+men%22

The expulsion of the Jews in Rome, Acts 18:2?
https://archive.org/details/theAntiquitiesOfTheJews_507/page/n791/mode/1up?q=%22who+desired+inquiry+might+be+made+about+it%2C+ordered+all+the+Jews+to+be+banished+out+of+Rome%3B+at+which+time+the+consuls+listed+four+thousand+men+out+of+them%22
https://archive.org/details/theAntiquitiesOfTheJews_507/page/n792/mode/1up?q=%22Jews+banished+out+of+the+city+by+the+wickedness+of+four+men%22

The Jerusalem Talmud and Targum Esther/Shami on Jesus as son of Pandira/Stada (intentionally altering his chronogenealogy) as a polemic against his reputation and the Christian faith.
https://archive.ph/nNEvQ#selection-699.205-699.211
https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/ltp/1900-v1-n1-ltp0550/1015256ar/

https://archive.org/details/explanatorycomme00cassrich/mode/1up?q=Pandira

If we conclude that these comparisons are reflections of early Christian tradition rather than any particular gospel (or the synoptic gospels as a whole), then hypotheses that certain beliefs (and perhaps sayings of/) about Jesus, such as his ascension or the virgin birth, is the result of an evolutionary aggrandizement or redaction is called into serious question. Especially if one who make these suggestions presuppose that the gospels were written in the second century or even later.