The Story of Jesus

If Jesus didn't make these claims, then whoever sat down to write what we now call the gospel of John, what was going on? Was he just making something up? Was hejust writing fiction purposefully? Was he trying to mislead people? I doubt it. And I don't think it's just John. I think everybody who in the early church, who's telling stories about Jesus, which would have probably been just aboutEverybody in the earlyChurch are spreading throughout the entire empire. They're not converting millions of people or anything or even thousands, many thousands, but they're one at a time,. The way storytelling works is that there's no way to prevent that.