Interesting. Some of the early non-Christian sources that refer to Christ often label Him a “magician” or a “wonder worker”, cf. Josephus and the Talmud.
Myself, I’m convinced that the miraculous exploits of Christ were well-known to contemporary pagan and Jew alike.
I just finished a 32 page essay called “Pagan Roots of the Christ Myth” which points out that many “christs” from ancient times have had virgin births, were crucified in some fashion and resurrected. And many claim 12.25 as their birth day. Very interesting parallels from many continents.
Everyone knows that this issue of Jesus being nothing more than a rural magician was exhaustively explored and definitively settled in the movie “the Silver Chalice” starring Jack Palance as Simon, an evil aspiring magician determined to undermine the Christian cult.
Paul Newman played a gullible sexy young hunk and Virginia Mayo played a non-virginia.