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In Jesus' time there was much talk of a Messiah who would liberate the Jews by force; the Romans executed several of these would-be Messiahs as well as Jesus of Nazareth.

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The oldest known fragment of the New Testament is a tiny snippet of a Gospel of John. It was dated to have been written about 130 AD.