Twaddle.
I guess you haven't read much Josephus. I doubt there is a secular scholar anywhere who thinks the two passages that refer to Jesus are actually from Josephus. These are short passages inserted into the text almost as non-sequiturs. Josepehus was extremely long-winded. To think that he might only have given a few sentences to someone as import as Jesus is absurd.
ML/NJ
I know what the text says. Obviously John the Baptist was to him the better known and significanrt figure. Accoding to Luke, the scion of a priestly family to whom Mary was related.The reference to Jesus is almost an aside. Even in the Gospels, we read that Herod knew him only in connection with John. We can speculate and say that Joseph knew of his family. The whole message of the gospel is the relative obscurity of Jesus, and his sudden appearence in Jerusalem ,dramatic confrontation with the powers that be, his brutal death at the hands of the authority, and the reports of his resurrection. The God of Israel incognito, disappearing almost as suddenly as he came, and leaving behind followers at first stupified by events and then emerging with quiet violence to evangelize the world.
But I do not argue.