"If we do proceed to ask what the independent non-Christian evidence for the
Gospel miracles is, we shall find that early non-Christian writers who do refer
to Jesus at any length do not dispute that He performed miracles. Josephus, as
we shall see, calls Him a wonder-worker; later Jewish references in the
rabbinical writings, as we shall also see, attribute His miracles to sorcery,
but do not deny them, just as some in the days of His flesh attributed His
powers to demon possession. Sorcery is also the explanation given by Celsus, the
philosophic critic of Christianity in the second century. The early apostles
referred to His miracles as facts which their audiences were as well acquainted
with as they themselves were; similarly the early apologists refer to them as
events beyond dispute by the opponents of Christianity."
Source: The New Testament Documents: Are They Reliable, 5th edition (1959) by F.F.
Bruce, Chapter 5: The Gospel Miracles, page 37.
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